Modular Forge Frontend

[armindarvish]

Hi,

I am working on a package for browsing GitHub inside Emacs instead of using the browser, consult-gh. I recently added support for forge (see here), using forge as the frontend to view issues. However, I had to hack everything to decouple forge from magit or create temp folders to trick magit to believe it is inside a git repository. I was wondering if there is any functions in forge (or if not is it possible to add some) that are more modular and do not heavily depend on Magit, Ghub, etc. Simply, I need a function that takes the name (or url) of a repo and an issue/pr number and I want to load it in a forge-topic buffer and then have the ability to add/edit posts, ... My current solution works, but it is hacky and what I am doing there really belongs in forge and not consult-gh!

In general, I would like to have some modular capability to integrate consult-gh with forge. For example, I am working on the ability to switch between multiple accounts, but don't know how to support that with forge and ghub integration either. I'll file another issue in ghub for this specific one, though.

[tarsius]

Answering at magit/ghub#163 for now.

[tarsius]

However, I had to hack everything to decouple forge from magit or create temp folders to trick magit to believe it is inside a git repository.

With Forge v0.4.0 such hackery should not be necessary anymore. Please remove that before consult-gh is added to Melpa (melpa/melpa#9118).

Instead use forge-topic-setup-buffer and forge-topics-setup-buffer. Note how they don't need a Git repository and fall back to using / as default-directory.