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My struggles
I can't count how many times this happened to me while working on a project: I a...
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This is pretty much what I do. Every new project gets a new worktree in the wt subdir of the repo named after the branch I am working on. All I need to do to switch projects is cd - no worry about what files will be stashed, what I lose in a branch switch, etc. In fact I have wrapped all of this in scripts that keep track of all these directories so that I type
git goto get a list of them in a SELECT menu andgit go <regexp.to filter the choices,The script is a very good idea and it gives me inspiration. Do you use bare repos?
Nope. I have a LARGE set of git wrappers such that when I type:
~/gits/github/org/repo~/gits/github/org/repo/wt.Then I
git go somerepoto cd to~/gits/github/org/repoand typewhich
foobrbranch./wtfoobrdirectoryfoobrworktree, usingfoobrbranch in thefoobrdirectoryIt's a hairy complicated mess that has grown over the past 7 years. The key to it all is that I have a function called
git. Yep. I do my OWN dispatch. Otherwise, you can't add to existing git commands.If you want to see it: github.com/matthewpersico/personal
That's a kinda neat solution and if that works for you that's good.
Yeah. I keep thinking about breaking it out into its own repo,but it’s just too intertwined with lots of my utility stuff. And, it could probably use a rewrite in Python or Perl for most of the gymnastics it does in shell with git hub api. But who has the time? I cobbled it together over 7 years at my $job.
Just what I was looking for
Thanks for sharing ;)
Glad it helped you!
Loved it.
Thanks! I will update it soon enough since I've been using worktrees for a while now. What changed most is that I avoid having worktrees directly in the project folder where the
.gitfolder is.Great article mate!
Thanks, your comment really means a lot to me!