kashav/point

Shorten URLs with GitHub repositories and the http-equiv attribute.

point's Issues

Option to use an organization instead.

Currently the tool uses my own repositories. This has the disatvantage of cluttering the public repository list with 'shortened' urls. This problem could be migitated if it were possible to use an organization to store the shortened urls in instead.

Refresh local cache for entries

Currently, the point list command displays a list of url redirects from local cache (i.e. entries created by point, stored in state.Log.Entries).

However, it might not be the actual list of urls from github page.

That could either be caused by:

1. Using point from other computer
2. Manually changing the repo online
3. Failed creation online that was not recognised by point (e.g. point thought it created an entry online while the actual Github page did not has that entry)
4. Trying to create the same shorturl multiple time (see below)

Example

Let say I ran this command multiple time:
$ point create -s -r foo/bar -n shorturl "http://something"
It will succeed the first time and command failed after the first execution, which is okay. (failed because there is nothing to commit in git)
(But ideally it should notify the user that the same entry already exists)

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Starting fresh. The problem lies on if I run:
$ point create -s -r foo/bar -n shorturl "http://something"
$ point create -s -r foo/bar -n shorturl "http://somethingelse"
$ point create -s -r foo/bar -n shorturl "http://something"
$ point create -s -r foo/bar -n shorturl "http://somethingelse"
it will succeed everytime because it was able to update the repo successfully, which is okay too.
(Ideally it should notify the user that it has updated an existing entry)
But if I then run point list it will shows:

$ point list
1) foo/bar -> http://something
2) foo/bar -> http://somethingelse
3) foo/bar -> http://something
4) foo/bar -> http://somethingelse

while the actual repo only has one folder named bar/shorturl (i.e. github.com/foo/bar/shorturl). It's because state.Log.Entries has desynced from the actual repo.

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A solution might be add an option to sync with the repo, something like

point list -s -r foo/bar --sync

which iterate the folders, looking for some token to know that it's a shorten url, and update its state.Log.Entries accordingly. Which should then show something like:

$ point list -s -r foo/bar --sync
1) foo/bar -> http://somethingelse

and thereafter.

Of course, this is only covering the subdirectory case and I'm not sure how to go about on the createNewRepo case (which would be expensive to loop through all repos)

Option to create subdirectories instead

Instead of making new repositories, I think it should be possible to create subdirectories in the main GitHub page repo (e.g. arkon.github.io/haiG89h/index.html).