git-worktree-wrapper

This wrapper script features an API for git-worktree commands in order to easily create, switch and delete worktrees of bare repositories using commands you already know: git checkout and git branch.

Quiet built-in checkouts are made after each overridden checkout to trigger post-checkout hooks.

Table of Contents

• Installation
  • Wrapper script
  • Completion rules
  • Setup default editor
• Usage
  • Clone and setup a bare repository
    • Setup fetch rules from the remote
  • Open an existing branch, tag or worktree
    • Comparison with vanilla git-worktree
  • Create a new branch or worktree
    • Comparison with vanilla git-worktree
  • Delete a branch and its worktree
    • Comparison with vanilla git-worktree

Installation

Wrapper script

Clone this repository

git clone https://github.com/lu0/git-worktree-wrapper
cd git-worktree-wrapper

Link git-wrapper-script to your local PATH

ln -srf git-worktree-wrapper.sh ~/.local/bin/git-worktree-wrapper

Add the following to your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_aliases

alias git="source git-worktree-wrapper"

Restart your terminal or re-run bash

bash

Completion rules

Check if your current completion rules autocomplete git after installing the wrapper script. Try git checko + TAB

If your git commands are no longer autocompleted, install complete_alias@3fc67e8.

sudo apt install bash-completion
git clone https://github.com/cykerway/complete-alias ~/.complete-alias
cd ~/.complete-alias
git checkout 3fc67e8
echo ". ${PWD}/complete_alias" >> ~/.bash_completion

Inherit git's completion rules by pasting the following in your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_aliases

alias git="source git-worktree-wrapper"
complete -F _complete_alias git

__compal__get_alias_body() {
    local cmd="$1"
    local body; body="$(alias "$cmd")"

    # Overrides
    case "$cmd" in
        "git") body="git"
    esac

    echo "${body#*=}" | command xargs
}

Setup default editor

Set the environment variable EDITOR in your ~/.bashrc, git-worktree-wrapper will try to open worktree directories using this editor.

# Example using vscode
export EDITOR=code

Or set DISABLE_GIT_WORKTREE_EDITOR=1 to disable usage of editors.

export DISABLE_GIT_WORKTREE_EDITOR=1

Usage

Clone and setup a bare repository

Try with this repo!

git clone --bare https://github.com/lu0/git-worktree-wrapper
cd git-worktree-wrapper.git

Setup fetch rules from the remote

git config --local remote.origin.fetch +refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*
git fetch

Open an existing branch, tag or worktree

Switch to branch master:

git checkout master

You can also switch to an existing tag:

git checkout v1.0.0

The script will automatically create the worktree, if it does not exist, and cd into it, even if you are cd'd into another worktree/branch/tag:

Comparison with vanilla git-worktree

Next commands should be issued to achieve the same functionality described above when git-worktree-wrapper is not installed:

If the branch/tag exists but the worktree doesn't.

cd /path/to/the/root/of/the/bare/repository
git worktree add master
cd master

When the worktree exists:

cd /path/to/the/root/of/the/bare/repository
cd master

Create a new branch or worktree

To create a new branch, just issue the command you already know:

git checkout -b new_branch <from_branch (optional)>
# or use -B to force reset

The script will automatically create a new worktree and cd into it, even if you are cd'd into another worktree/branch/tag:

Comparison with vanilla git-worktree

Next commands should be issued to achieve the same functionality described above when git-worktree-wrapper is not installed:

When both the branch and worktree don't exist

git branch new_branch
cd /path/to/the/root/of/the/bare/repository
git worktree add new_branch
cd new_branch

When branch or worktree already exist and you want to reset it as git checkout -B would do:

cd /path/to/the/root/of/the/bare/repository
cd new_branch
git checkout -B new_branch <from_branch (optional)>

Delete a branch and its worktree

To delete a branch, just issue the command you already use for "normal" repositories:

git branch -d new_branch # or -D to force removal

The script will delete both the branch and its worktree.

If you are cd'd into the worktree/branch you are deleting, the script will cd you into the root directory of the bare repository.

Comparison with vanilla git-worktree

Next commands should be issued to achieve the same functionality described above when git-worktree-wrapper is not installed:

cd /path/to/the/root/of/the/bare/repository
git worktree remove new_branch
git branch -d new_branch # or -D to force removal