import/focus on one project from a url

[maxandersen]

Quickstarts repos like https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus-quickstarts have multiple sub projects and would be awesome to either:

A) have one devfile.yaml in root to define a shared workspace setup, but then be able to tell che to just import lets say https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus-quickstarts/tree/master/getting-started folder - without having to use absolute folder names/urls.

B) allow referring to folder like che.openshift.io/f?url=https://github.com/maxandersen/quarkus-quickstarts/tree/che/getting-started and have it locate nearest devfile.yaml rather than listen to /devfile.yaml in root directly.

Ultimately having the project explorer or similar "focused" on getting-started to avoid polluting the UI.

[skabashnyuk]

related to #13671

[maxandersen]

#13671 seem to be about sparse checkout which is useful but separate feature IMO.

In this I'm talking about being able to checkout a github repo but then only import part of it and be able to focus on that.

Limiting import is more about saving resources in a limited cloud environment but also to avoid polluting the UI with potentially hundreds of other projects. When I use emacs, eclipse, vscode, intellij or any other desktop IDE I can think of I highly rely on being able to focus on a specific area.

That is useful not only when doing quickstart like projects for newbies, but also for normal development work of just focusing on one area - while still being able to navigate to other parts of the larger project.

[skabashnyuk]

In this I'm talking about being able to checkout a github repo but then only import part of it and be able to focus on that.

Am I understand you correctly. You want to check out all soure code, but Theia should open only one subfolder?

[maxandersen]

Yes, or at least be able to "focus" on it.
Two different usecases with slightly different wanted behaviors:

1. A quickstart repo like https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus-quickstarts/ you would be ok just doing a spare checkout and focus on lets say getting-started folder. Since there is no shared parent pom all is good.

2. in quickstart repo like https://github.com/jboss-developer/jboss-eap-quickstarts you would like a full checkout as each quickstart refer to the parent pom and possibly other modules next to it - but be able to "focus" us just importing i.e. hello-world + parent project.

3. with more "traditional" multi-module project like https://github.com/quarkusio/quarkus you want to checkout everything but at least have a way to limit how much of the project gets imported to avoid using all available memory and/or at least be able to "focus' the selected projects.

For now using che for mainly smaller projects and quickstarts #1 and #2 would be a great help.

[skabashnyuk]

@l0rd @slemeur @sunix @tsmaeder can you comment? look like it will require some changes on IDE side.

[sunix]

I commented here
I would like to explore theia workspace multi root to solve that problem.

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[sunix]

another clean solution: #15540