Docker Integration

[josephcrawfordSRH]

I wanted to move over to the git-worktree workflow but we use docker at our company. Does this plugin give a way to symlink a certain directory based on which worktree you are actively using?

We currently have our code in a structure like /projects/project-1/.git, /projects/project-2/.git, etc we map our docker containers to these directories so that the code is served from there. However I was wondering if the git-worktree plugin had the capabilities on switching worktrees to change this directory, for instance if I were to clone to /projects/src/project-1 could this project sym link the /projects/project-1 directory to be /projects/src/project-1/work-tree-in-use/?

[philstainer]

Short answer is no, not currently in its current state

I did want to add a feature that, on new worktree creation, you could run a script from your package.json/custom config. My use case was installing node_modules automatically etc...

In the end I decided not to add it as I wasn't sure there was a need for it and also is this the right place for this to exist? I'm not sure

For now, could you create a custom script for sym linking your directories?

[josephcrawfordSRH]

Yes I could create a custom script but that would be a pain having to execute it with every work tree switch as I am between projects many times a day. I guess I have to say with my current setup until something is integrated for use with docker which stinks because using work trees looks so nice.

[philstainer]

I was thinking about this today and I reckon I could get something working

Would a config file, that has onCreateWorktree and onSwitchWorktree that runs commands after the action help?

You would have to create the script to sem link but if I give you the ability to automatically run scripts after actions, would that help / solve this? 😊

[josephcrawfordSRH]

@philstainer that would work perfectly, so long as the script can receive the path of the worktree I could do the symlink rather easily but without knowing the work tree path that would be difficult to do.

[josephcrawfordSRH]

@philstainer Have you looked at this and found it to not be as easy as initially thought? I would love to get something in place to take advantage of work trees in the new year sometime :).

I hope you had a happy and safe holiday(s).

[philstainer]

Thank you! I hope you had a nice break too 😃

I did have a look into it and was a little tricky! I have been pretty busy with work and the holidays stuff. Hopefully have some time next week to play again

[josephcrawfordSRH]

@philstainer no problem at all I know things slow over the holiday's they sure did for me :). I just wanted to touch base and see if it was looked at or if the holidays made you forget about it.

[philstainer]

So I had another little play! Got something working but its just way to inconsistent...

The problem is that the child process and command doesn't always run and I'm not sure why...I think its maybe an electron thing as can't seem to replicate it using only node.

[josephcrawfordSRH]

@philstainer thanks for digging into this, once figured out it will help tremendously. I wonder if vscode is caching something which is causing the events to not trigger 🤷 I am not familiar with how vscode plugins work at the moment.

I did notice you are mapping over config files and returning any that exist, could it possibly be returning the wrong file on some occasions? I see you are just grabbing the first file and then checking for worktreeEvents if for some reason it was grabbing the wrong file it would simply return here.

main...feat-worktree-events#diff-2efe24bedd39c84e4985c76072af30a120f06e5365ff474dd339b6e4b47e3df7R32

I could be completely off base here as again I am not familiar with vscode plugins at all currently but I am familiar with TypeScript.