Add gist ID from command line to force sync on VSC install

I’m creating bash scripts to allow me setup dev configuration by running few commands.

Currently I’m installing VSC from brew, running code --install-extension Shan.code-settings-sync

And then I want to pass GIST id and force sync on VSC start. However looks like it’s not possible now, as I could understood (https://github.com/shanalikhan/code-settings-sync/issues/465#issuecomment-349903749). Guys, maybe you have any ideas how I could implement it?

[shanalikhan]

Check the features on Readme.

https://github.com/shanalikhan/code-settings-sync#features

If you want to do manually see the Global Settings

[Zireael]

I’m doing settings sync on first run like this in my Linux docker file with online version of VSCode called code-server. If you change code-server in script below to code, it will work for normal VSCode too.

RUN code-server --install-extension Shan.code-settings-sync

RUN echo "{}" >> /root/.local/share/code-server/User/settings.json

RUN tmp=$(mktemp) && \
  jq -M '. +{ \
  "sync.syncExtensions": true,\
  "sync.autoDownload": true,\
  "sync.gist":"abc123def987",\
  "telemetry.enableTelemetry": false }' /root/.local/share/code-server/User/settings.json > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" /root/.local/share/code-server/User/settings.json

RUN echo "{}" >> /root/.local/share/code-server/User/syncLocalSettings.json

RUN tmp=$(mktemp) && \
  jq -M '. +{ "downloadPublicGist": true }' /root/.local/share/code-server/User/syncLocalSettings.json > "$tmp" && mv "$tmp" /root/.local/share/code-server/User/syncLocalSettings.json

Basically creating VSCode settings.json and adding gist ID to it using jq and then creating syncLocalSettings.json config with "downloadPublicGist": true. When VSCode (code-server) is opened first time, settings download gets successfully started. If you don’t want auto-download to start, change "sync.autoDownload": true to false

Now I only need to find a way to initialize VSCode first run bootstrap through command line /bash