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Add base64 flag to gp env #10804

Open loujaybee opened 2 years ago

loujaybee commented 2 years ago

Extend gp env to natively support base64 uploads, for multi-line files. Basically, this blog post, but built-in to Gitpod.

The use-case for this is for SSH key uploads, which should also be improved with:

Related:

However there might be more scenarios / edge cases where multi-line support would be generally useful.

Relates to:

jacobparis commented 2 years ago

If the core of this feature request is "add some way to serialize data before storing with gp env", then I think Base64 is the best way to encode but is there any other method we should consider? Binary? Gzip?

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