When a devfile is included in a GitHub repo the project to clone should be inferred

If I have project without a devfile.yaml and links to it like https://che.openshift.io/f?url=https://github.com/maxandersen/quarkus-quickstarts/tree/che a empty workspace is setup but with the project checked out.

If I add a devfile.yaml the project is not checked out and so far I’ve only been able to get something imported by adding:

projects:
  -
    name: quarkus-quickstarts
    source:
      type: git
      location: "https://github.com/maxandersen/quarkus-quickstarts.git"

but that now means I’m checking out a hardcoded path and thus the devfile.yaml inside a project is not really working well as I’m getting setup done from a branch potentially a completely different location/project and project checked out in che is from this hardcoded place.

@gorkem suggested to try:

projects:
  -
    name: quarkus-quickstarts
    source:
      type: git
``

but that gave me:  
"Error occurred during creation a workspace from devfile located at https://raw.githubusercontent.com/maxandersen/quarkus-quickstarts/che/devfile.yaml. Cause: Devfile schema validation failed. Error: (/projects/0/source):The object must have a property whose name is "location".""

Thus I can't see how to make a `devfile.yaml` that is easy to maintain as I would literally have to update that reference on every tag/branch I make for my project.

[mshaposhnik]

Just to make sure i understood it right:

• Direct devfile reference (i.e. f?url=......./devfile.yaml) - process what in the projects section;
• Git repo reference, no projects section inside devfile - process current repo and branch/tag;
• Git repo reference, devfile contains projects sections - process what is written in it;

Correct ? @maxandersen @gorkem

[gorkem]

If a devfile is referenced directly then projects is applied directly. If a devfile is being processed as part of reference to a git tree then projects che should skip processing the current git repo and process only other repos (if any) referenced from projects section.