Windows: Include repositories from WSL

[MrLuje]

I am using vscode on windows 10 but mainly using WSL2 so 90% of my repositories are in WSL.
By default, the extension shows windows' repository but not the WSL ones, but is would be nice to display both windows & WSL repositories.

Workaround :

• go to %userprofile%\.vscode\extensions\mohitsingh.repo-0.2.2-win32-x64\bin
• run repo.exe init
• edit %APPDATA%\repo.yml and add the following

roots: 
  # host paths
  - path: c:\users\xxxxx  # put your home directory here
  # wsl paths
  - path: \\wsl$\YOUR_WSL_DISTRIB_NAME\home\YOUR_USERNAME\

• now it should properly show both windows & wsl repositories

[mohitsinghs]

Hi @MrLuje, Thanks for the details. I don't use Windows, but I definitely want to improve Windows support. I think we should add this workaround to README as of now. ( Maybe a PR ? ) Meanwhile, I'll be adding ability to detect and scan WSL home in the binary.

I am also in process of moving some calculations from extension to binary and making paths configurable through extension itself.

[MrLuje]

Sure, I'll have a PR for the Readme by the weekend

[MrLuje]

In fact, the workaround is not fully working.
It properly builds the tree view, but fails to open repositories on click

[mohitsinghs]

Those seems to be valid wsl paths.
I guess, I'll have to arrange a Windows Machine to debug and verify this. Hopefully, It will be fixed then. I don't have any ETA as of now but I'm on it.

Update
I just quickly tested it on a windows computer and your workaround works great, so maybe something else is going on there. I'll look further into it once I merge tree building for our binary.

[MrLuje]

Looks like the first \ disappeared
The working path if \\wsl$\Ubuntu\home\vince\src\github\rancher\charts (starting with \\)

[mohitsinghs]

I just published v0.3.0 of extension that supports tree view on Windows and is slightly faster.

Unfortunately, WSL support is still unsolved because scanning WSL from Windows is really slow for some reasons. I've added notes in README for limited support of WSL.

[mohitsinghs]

Closing this in favor of #4 where we'll be tracking support for scanning remote environments including WSL.