Colocated repos with multiple workspaces?

[kwiberg]

🖖,

When I use jj workspace add in a colocated Jujutsu repo, I get a new workspace with a .jj/ dir but no .git/ dir—that is, only the primary workspace is colocated.

It feels like this might be fixable with Git worktrees, by giving each Jujutsu workspace its own colocated Git worktree. Has anyone attempted to do this?

[jennings]

Yes, in #4644.

There's no good way to hack it until it's an official feature, because you need jj to keep the git worktree's index up to date and it won't do that today.

[kwiberg]

Thanks! This answers my question exactly.
TL;DR: Although that PR has been open for almost a year, @ejpcmac recently took over the work started by @cormacrelf, so it looks like it may be picking up steam. ❤️

[ejpcmac]

Hello @kwiberg, just a head’s up to say I’ve been a bit busy AFK for the end of the summer and did not finish the rebase yet. It turned out a little bit more difficult than anticipated because some code has changed in a way that is breaking for the original changes to work.

I also very much want this feature myself, and would like to invest some time in Jujutsu in the long run. This then remains one of my prio OSS work for the weeks to come.