Using Defold and Github in 2019

Questions
#1

Hi everyone,

is there a nice way to use github with Defold and push updated from within Defold to guthub?

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#2

I am not sure you can do this. Personally, I use Git for Windows but there is a guide for how to use Git alongside Defold and the easiest ways to do so. It is a little old but seems up to date still.

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#3

Thanks! I already knew about it and the other workarounds to getting a defold project on github. Hopefully with the latest addition to the editor team, there will be a bit of room to add this as well ? :smiley:

#4

I thought the editor did work with external git services? You just have to setup the git first in the project manually. Is this not the case?

I still use external git tools because of paranoia. Maybe that’s why I don’t know for sure if it works… Github Desktop works fine these days for a visual tool.

#5

The built-in git client should work with any git repository. It should work equally well to push and pull from a Defold hosted project as a GitHub or Bitbucket project.

#6

Thanks. The project will still need to be created in a certain way and then change the remote url, right?

#7

No, that was the old way where projects had to be initially hosted with us.

You should be able to create a new GitHub repo, add an empty game.project file, clone it to disk using the terminal or a graphical git client. Then use the “open from disk” option on the Defold splash screen.

There is currently no way to create a new project from within the editor that would create the repo on GitHub.

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#8

Definitely better :slight_smile:

Hopefully we’ll gain that feature at some point (?).

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#9

It seems I cannot pull anything from github. I have:

  • created a new project on github (with a game.project empty file)
  • cloned to my machine
  • opened in defold
  • when trying to synchronize I’m agetting a “Error getting changes” message during pull operation.

I’ve also tried using ssh from github, same result.
Committing, pushing and pulling from both command line and atom work fine.

Any ideas?

#10

Hmm, @mats.gisselson and @Erik_Angelin?

#11

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I tested Synchronize with a bitbucket git and it wanted me to sign in.

#12

Yes, this is what happened to me as well.

#13

The synchronise feature in the editor is only for dashboard-hosted projects. For other remotes we currently recommend using an external git client. Maybe we should say this when you try to synchronise? Or alternatively expand the sync support.

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#14

Thanks!

Sync support would be helpful. I like working in Editor 2. It’s missing features but it’s a pleasant environment :wink:

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