How to use a local git repository for a foxx application on ArangoDB

Question

Foxx supports using a github repository for applications. How can we use a local git repo or any other vendor's repo?

Answer 1

A) For any other remote vendor you have the following options:

1) If it offers an url to download the file as a zip like github does eg: https://github.com/arangodb/arangodb/archive/devel.zip you can simply use this URL to install the foxx app.

foxx-manager install <your url>.zip /test

2) If not you can checkout the repository locally and continue with B)

B) If you have the repository locally say at the location /Users/me/myApp you can install it from the local file system using:

foxx-manager install /Users/me/myApp /test

We plan to support other git vendors directly as well in the future but it is not yet implemented.