ekzhang
Load and save percival files in git repos
I think it would be neat to be able to load, save, edit, and commit percival files directly against a git repo.
Something like isomorphic-git could be useful here:
https://github.com/isomorphic-git/isomorphic-git
It seems there are some potential complications to supporting a git workflow, especially related to CORS.
Thoughts?
It'd probably be easier to program directly against the Github API, authenticated using one of the OAuth flows rather than emulate a whole file-system in memory and work with Git's data structures.
What api enables you to traverse the repo and commit to it? That's what git is for.
To clarify, my goal with this is would be to add a new way to persist changes made to the document other than exporting a brand new gist every time which is awkward to manage.
Potential follow up features could include: 1. opening other percival documents from the main site (point to a git url), 2. multi-document workflows, where a table defined and exported by one document is imported and used in another, etc.