Support for Remote Development via SSH (e.g., AWS Linux Boxes)

[raunakdoesdev]

Description
I frequently work on code hosted on a Linux box on AWS via SSH. Currently, I'm unable to use GitButler to manage my remote repositories, as it seems there’s no built-in support for workflows involving SSH access to remote systems.

I tried a workaround by mounting the remote AWS directory to my local machine using sshfs. However, this proved to be painfully slow—simple operations like git status took over 2 minutes to execute on the mounted filesystem. This makes the approach impractical for day-to-day use.

Feature Request
It would be incredibly useful if GitButler could natively support managing remote repositories over SSH. This feature would allow users to seamlessly work on remote repositories with the same ease as local ones.

As someone who loves the product and actively uses it for local repositories, I (and likely many others) would be happy to subscribe to GitButler if this feature were implemented. It would make GitButler an indispensable tool for remote development workflows.

[Byron]

Thanks a lot for suggesting this feature!

I think you aren't the first one either, it's regularly requested. Also I can get excited over imagining such a remote workflow, with the GitButler backend running on a remote machine and streaming data over ssh. Technically it should already be possible as long as the frontend could connect to a backend launched remotely, while communicating over stdin/stdout.

CC @mtsgrd and @krlvi .

[atreidesend]

if we got this you might be able to use it to provide a nicer WSL experience as well -- that's essentially what vscode does, the native windows app treats the linux vm as a 'remote'

[Caleb-T-Owens]

This is something we'd love to do, however our current focus is on improving UX and stabilising functionality before we start adding another round of features to the app. We've even talked about some interesting ways of packaging the remote binary, like making a special vscode plugin that installs & runs a remote gitbutler in dev containers.