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joedevivo / vscode-circuitpython

VSCode extension for Adafruit's CircuitPython
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[BUG] (Question, actually) #18

Open jeffdeville opened 4 years ago

jeffdeville commented 4 years ago

Sorry, not sure where else to ask this.

It seems like the magic here is dependent on coding directly in the /CIRCUITPYTHON volume. Does everyone just put .git directly into that folder, and if you want to switch projects, just delete and clone the new project in?

Thanks, this is such a great coding experience all around!

joedevivo commented 4 years ago

Hi Jeff,

You've got a couple of options. The important thing is that the workspace looks like the /CIRCUITPYTHON volume, but it doesn't have to be the volume. What I mean is that as long as it's a directory that can be opened as a VSCode workspace, with a code.py in it. If there's a ./lib, it will update libraries there, and you can copy everything over to the circuit python volume when you want to run it. You can also just open the volume as a workspace, but you're right, I wouldn't want to be managing a .git dir on that Volume.

I personally have a single git repo with my in-flight circuit python projects in sub directories. Then I can copy the whole directory to the volume without worrying about hidden .git files. I'll wind up working on a workspace on the device, and copying it back to my git repo on disk when I'm done working on it.

jeffdeville commented 4 years ago

Thank you for the input, Joe!

Here's what I've done, in case it's useful to anyone else:

  1. Set up a separate directory for my development on my local machine. Make sure I copy the lib/ directory from my device over
  2. Install: http://eradman.com/entrproject/ - This is a cross platform file-system watcher
  3. Use the following Makefile to keep my device in sync with my local machine. (I'm on a mac)

NOTE I prefer to delete files on the device that are not in my repo. You can do that by adding --delete to the rsync args below. I removed it, out of concern of someone blindly copy/pasting and losing something important that was not a .py or .mpy file.

Makefile

sync:
    while sleep 1 ; do find . -name '*.*py' | entr -d rsync -avz --prune-empty-dirs --include="*/" --include="*.*py" --exclude="*" ./ /Volumes/CIRCUITPY ; done