Ability to browse or download specific files of a stopped workspace without starting
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component: dashboard
enhancement
meta: never-stale
meta: stale
team: webapp
type: feature request
user experience
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
Could there be a way to download specific files from a stopped workspace rather than downloading all files? It would be much more convenient, especially in the case where you only have to see a few changes.
### Tasks
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named in the issue. Start by tracing how stopped workspaces currently expose or download files, then define a way to select individual files and verify that downloading only the selected files works without starting the workspace.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- cloud, developer-experience
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100