Add a File Explorer context menu entry to launch Desktop

Using GitHub Desktop 1.3.2 x64 in win 10.

Currently in order to add a repo to GitHub Desktop you have to either use the dialogs: File|New Repository or File|Open Local Repository or drag’n’drop a repo folder inside GitHub Desktop.

My suggestion is to add a File Explorer context menu entry, named e.g. GitHub Desktop Here. This would:

• open an existing repo (if the opened folder is a repo), or
• offer a dialog to create a repo with the opened folder, otherwise.

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^{For reference, Git for Windows offers similar context menu entries: “Git GUI Here” and “Git Bash Here” and I find them very useful:}

[heetbeet]

Okay, so here is a proof of concept for adding a temporary options menu with a choice to either keep the entry or to discard the entry. I haven’t really seen such a pseudo-interactive context menu, but it does check a lot of usability boxes: https://github.com/heetbeet/GitHub-Desktop-context-menu

For me personally: this is the closest I can get to a fully isolated solution (isolated from the app) that I can immediately start using myself.

For the community: it might be easy to rework this and add it to GitHub Desktop, but I have no idea how to integrate this with the app itself.

What the script does

It adds the necessary actions as scripts in the bin directory, then adds the default setting (the cascading one) to the context manager. You can run any of the three scripts to reset the context manager to that specific state.

[steveward]

Requested in https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/15205.