Support folder buckets which are not a git repo

[NotWearingPants]

Currently, scoop buckets are a git repo with a bucket folder.
Git is used for auto-updating the package index.

Scoop also supports installing manifests directly - scoop install .\path\to\local\app.json, or scoop install http://example.com/path/to/remote/app.json

Scoop should support something like scoop bucket add local .\path\to\local or scoop bucket add example http://example.com/path/to/remote, which should register the local/remote bucket, and when using scoop install app it should attempt to fetch the manifest from that local directory or url.

[Ash258]

Just add the folder to the "$env:SCOOP\buckets"

You will see update failure on buckets updates, but nothing critical.

Or just link the folder if desired.

[NotWearingPants]

Thanks for replying :)

That's my current setup, I opened this issue because I get errors on bucket updates.
Getting errors is very annoying, since I look at the update output to see what's new.

I'm hoping for a less hackish solution, that will also symlink the folder itself.

This solution also doesn't work for remote buckets (with a URL) which are not git repos, although I admit this is not my current use case.

[rashil2000]

Closed in #4670

[the-nurk]

for those who ended up here, the solution is not here, it's over here:

#5314