Request: .git file for workspaces

[patmaddox]

Hi there, I was a big fan of git worktrees and have become a bigger fan of jj workspaces. There's one issue I find though: workspaces do not have a .git file. A git worktree has a .git file similar to how workspace have .jj, where the content is something like: gitdir: /tmp/gittest/therepo/.git/worktrees/workspace-1

I wonder if it would be possible for jj to create worktree objects in a git dir, if the default workspace is colocated and you create a workspace?

The main place where this comes up is in tracking and building the FreeBSD branches main, stable/14, and releng/14.*. The build tools assume the code is in a git repo, and it can get confusing at times.

[bnjmnt4n]

There's currently a WIP PR for that (#4644). It does seem to have stalled.

[patmaddox]

cool, thanks

[BatmanAoD]

I just realized that this also makes rg search lots of files that one probably doesn't expect to be searched. (I certainly didn't.)