Suggestions to Improve UX (url validation, error handling)

[sanzoghenzo]

Hi, I finally solved my problems with NixOS (needed to add also openssh and bash to the packages exposed to silverbullet), and based on my experience I would suggest a few things:

• the "Github: Clone" command asks for the url of the repository, and only accepts the https://github.com/org/repo format. it should check if the user already added the ".git" suffix (fairly common if you use the "Clone" button to copy the url) and/or if the url doesn't start for "https://github.com" (I took for granted that I could just use "org/repo" since the command is for github only)
• if there is an error, it doesn't output any message, so you have to check the logs to find out if everything works
• if the repository is empty, the sync don't work (at least it didn't for me); the log says

  Your branch is based on 'origin/main', but the upstream is gone.
  (use "git branch --unset-upstream" to fixup)
  

• if I push things on the main branch from another computer, at the next sync I get the "divergent branches" error, as one would expect if you commit things before pulling the updated

Is it just me that I'm using the plug in all the wrong ways possible? 😅

[sanzoghenzo]

Another little problem I encountered:

• i had to manually add *.db* to .gitignore to avoid having a ton of commits with only wal and shm files (that brought my git folder to 1.2GB in a matter of 2 weeks), it would be wonderful if this ignore is added automatically during the initialization
• once everything was set up it didn't perform the automatic pull and push, only to realize that i ussed autosync all lowercase instead of autoSync. Logs show

  Triggered auto commit with config { autosync: true, autoCommitMinutes: 5 }
  

  without any warning or error messages