Get current Github Repository name with Octokit

Question

I'm trying to get some information about the current Github Repo Projects, for a VsCode Extension, But I don't know (Haven't found it in the Documentation) how to get the current Repo name. With that information, I would try to execute the following (Which I got from the documentation & works when I hard code a rep name as a string).

return await octokit.rest.projects
  .listForRepo({
    owner: userInfo.data.login,
    repo: currentRepoName,
  });

what context information do you have with the VS Code extension from which you could derive the repository name? — Gregor, Sep 10 '21 at 16:24
I'm trying to understand your question, too :) When you say "current Repo", what do you mean? Current repository in the context of what exactly? — Gregor, Sep 10 '21 at 20:03
In the folder when you open a git repo/folder in VsCode. I’m playing around with creating an Vs ode extension which gets some information about the repo your working on. — Felix Niedermann, Sep 11 '21 at 10:30
Like the extension Git Lense, how does it know which repo it has to show the data from. — Felix Niedermann, Sep 12 '21 at 06:55
I can get the current folder, but the folder doesn't have to have the same name like a git repo (I think, or am I wrong?) — Felix Niedermann, Sep 12 '21 at 12:34
The source code for Git Lince is public, so you can check out how they are doing it? https://github.com/eamodio/vscode-gitlens I'd assume the look into `.git/config` and use the configuration for `origin` in your git remotes — Gregor, Sep 13 '21 at 19:42
Yeah I was a bit dumb...I thought the hidden directories are shown in VsCode, but in the settigns of Vscode it exactly hides the .git directory. It was my first I idea to read it out of there but I thought it didn't exist xD. Now I read the file & with regex I get the repo name from the remote url (Maybe there's a better solution but it works for now). Thank you for making me look/think again. — Felix Niedermann, Sep 15 '21 at 05:38

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 15 '21 at 05:42

Thanks to the help of @Gregor I got the following solution know. It's not quite pretty, so I'm still happy for any suggestions:

let file = await fs.readFileSync(require("path").resolve(__dirname, '../.git/config'), 'utf8');
let repo = (file.match('[^\/]+(\.git)')!)[0].toString().replace(".git", "");

Get current Github Repository name with Octokit

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