From: Omar Polo <op@omarpolo.com>
Subject: Re: mkstemp: Permission denied
To: Johannes Thyssen Tishman <lists@thyssentishman.com>
Cc: gameoftrees@openbsd.org
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2023 00:17:10 +0200

On 2023/06/02 17:44:58 +0200, Johannes Thyssen Tishman <lists@thyssentishman.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 03:20:18PM +0200, Omar Polo wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > On 2023/06/02 12:54:27 +0200, Johannes Thyssen Tishman <lists@thyssentishman.com> wrote:
> > > Hi again,
> > >
> > > In my previous email[0] I described a how I found a way to keep the
> > > worktree and the cloned repo on the same directory:
> > >
> > >     $ mkdir test && cd test
> > >     $ got clone ssh://user@example.com/test .got
> > >     $ got checkout -E .got .
> > >
> > > However when doing this, I'm getting the following error on 'got add
> > > file':
> > >
> > > got: mkstemps: /path/to/worktree/.got/file-index-OJVI2Q: Permission
> > > denied
> >
> > yep, it's not the intended way to use the tool.  ".got" in a worktree
> > is used to store other metadata, not the repository itself.  You might
> > be lucky using another directory, e.g. ".repo", but I would suggest
> > keeping your stuff elsewhere.  I have a ~/git/ directory for that, but
> > other places are fine.  When I started using got I used to create
> > foo/foo.repo with the bare repository and checkout the worktrees as
> > foo/main, foo/branch-x, etc.
> 
> Ah interesting. Would you mind telling me more about your workflow? You
> keep your repos under ~/git and where do you keep your worktrees?

Well, I'm usually quite disorganized, but I keep my repositories in
~/git (e.g. ~/git/got.git or ~/git/src.git for the OpenBSD src.git
repository) and checkout out (one or more) worktrees in ~/w/; ~/w/got
for example.  Except that some stuff (e.g. emacs) is in checked out in
~/build/ for not particular reason.  not particularly organized as you
can see :-)

I think others have similar setup, minor verbiage and paths, and with
less disorganization.

When I started using got I tried a different workflow that didn't
stick with me, for no particular reason.  I used ~/w/foo with
foo/repo.git being the bare repo and ~/w/foo/main being the 'main'
branch checked out, and so on.

But that's just me.  Use whatever setup works best for you; but I'd
advise for using separate paths for the repository and the work trees.
They're not useful for all projects, but being able to check out
multiple worktrees -- even from the same branch -- is handy once you
start to do it.


Cheers,

Omar Polo