[gp cli] tasks support

[akosyakov]

Gitpod CLI should provide following commands to access tasks:

• gp task list to list workspace tasks and their state
• go task attach <id> to attach to a workspace task by an id

In order to attach we should use supervisor terminal service similar how it is done here but always with resizable and interactive session.

[axonasif]

gp task attach to attach to a workspace task by an id

So this will be something like tmux I assume.
For that case I have a suggestion, I think it would be better to have a separate UI for the gitpod tasks, more like how the Remote Explorer works on Gitpod.

[akosyakov]

For that case I have a suggestion, I think it would be better to have a separate UI for the gitpod tasks, more like how the Remote Explorer works on Gitpod.

It is for terminal users via SSH and for IDEs there we don't provide deep integration yet, i.e. JetBrains products. Generally whatever we have in UI should be reflected in Gitpod CLI as well.

In VS Code we already have UI, Gitpod tasks are automatically opened in terminals on workspace startup.

[axonasif]

It is for terminal users via SSH and for IDEs there we don't provide deep integration yet, i.e. JetBrains products. Generally whatever we have in UI should be reflected in Gitpod CLI as well.

I agree, I like to do most of my tasks from cli when possible.

In VS Code we already have UI, Gitpod tasks are automatically opened in terminals on workspace startup.

Here I was thinking about an UI for the detached background gitpod command tasks in the web version of Gitpod. But if course, cli should be there too.

[akosyakov]

Please don't work on it. This issue is for a candidate.

[axonasif]

@akosyakov I think it would be nice if the tasks subcommand had a restart/re-run task feature. Someone had asked about this in Discord. And I personally would find this feature useful too.

[akosyakov]

@axonasif yeah, i remember had same urge sometimes. How would it work? Rerun in the same terminal? Start a new terminal?

[axonasif]

@axonasif yeah, i remember had same urge sometimes. How would it work? Rerun in the same terminal? Start a new terminal?

Maybe a flag to specify the behavior? Run it on the caller terminal by default. Similar to gp preview and gp preview --external

[akosyakov]

Oh, I mean I'm not even sure what should be default behaviour :)

[axonasif]

I'm not either, I was trying to compare it with such an existing implementation of another gp subcommand 🙂

[akosyakov]

@axonasif Could you create a separate issue about restarting a task please?