Preserve unsaved edits while establishing a remote connection in the Web IDE
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Problem to solve
As discussed in gitlab-web-ide#46 (comment 1169646981), establishing a connection to a remote development environment in VS Code destroys the current session and effectively restarts the Web IDE. This means that any unsaved, uncommitted changes will be lost in the transition.
Proposal
Stash, in some way, all unsaved changes from the standalone Web IDE before connecting to a remote development environment. Apply those changes automatically to the newly-created remote environment. Warn of any potential conflicts.
Details
Questions
- Is the best approach to store a git diff in the local browser storage, then apply the diff after establishing the connection?
- Is it easier to prompt the user about the data loss and let them decide how to proceed? Would there be a situation where they don't want to bring over unsaved changes? If they create a patch file then they could recover from a failed connection or apply the changes in another tab.
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