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friism on Aug 7, 2014 | parent | context | favorite | on: Introducing Heroku Button

Right now buttons only work with source code hosted on GitHub (although the button can be added anywhere). We want to extend that to other source code hosting services, though.

The challenge is that we have to resolve the [app.json][1] file to generate the deploy UI.

[1]: https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2014/5/22/introducing_the_a...

louis-paul on Aug 7, 2014 [–]

Why not do something like the go get tool, that uses git, mercurial and subversion to try to resolve a repo by a URL and to get its contents?

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