Pulling a theme from a branch

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I’m asking this as a touchstone. I would fully understand that this might be outside of the scope of what needs to be addressed at this time.

Anyway, I’m trying to have a main branch and development branch of my theme. I went to GitHub and created a branch of my labarum theme.

Then I went into micro.blog and specified a new theme.

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Micro.blog says that it’s still downloading the repository.

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I did this on Friday of last week and I’m still seeing the message. Because it was Friday of a holiday weekend, I didn’t say anything.

Feel free to put this one on the backlog as I consider it an outlier for use cases. I’ll create a new repository sometime next week for my experiments.

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Thanks. Yeah, branches don’t work currently. That seems like something we can fix.

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Should I presume this is still a roadmap item? It would definitely be a handy feature for theme and plug-in developers if it is…

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Is there any possibility of branch support getting added to the mix? Being able to have a staging/preview environment on a different branch would be great!

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Thanks for bringing this up again. I still like the original suggestion of entering the full path to the branch. I’m going to work more on this.

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If you go this route, something to consider is that a github personal access token can serve as a password when cloning private repositories. You could support it with a URL pattern like the following:

https://<user>:<pat>@github.com/waccamaw/dotorg/tree/unstable