VS2019 - Switching solutions disables TGIT

[MartinL0815]

If I open another solution from the VS2019 file menu TGIT disables all functions. If I re-open the previous loaded solution, TGIT returns from completely disabled to enabled.

[MartinL0815]

I was surprised to see, that seemly one specific solution does not allow "global" (solution-wide" git commands, but document-only commands! What prevents in a specific solution, the global commands and allow document commands?

[sboulema]

It tries to find the .git folder in the solution folder. It caches if it was able to find the folder for 30 seconds. So that might cause a problem while switching solutions.

[MartinL0815]

I know now the difference between the "old" and this "new" branch. It is created as worktree, has no ".git" folder, but a ".git" file.

Eventually … https://stackoverflow.com/questions/53796823/git-directory-in-git-worktree-not-a-directory … tells the needed things to enable the TGit commands in the worktree branch (not cloned).

[MartinL0815]

The "correct" .git folder is for this worktree branch in "..\master.git\worktrees\PS-15.1"

And the .git file points with its content to it:

 gitdir: C:/Development/git/…/Master/.git/worktrees/PS-15.1

[sboulema]

Thanks for the info! Very helpful. Should be ready to parse the .git file and use that info in the extension.

Will look into adding that in the next version :)

Documentation: Git Repository Layout

Note: Also you can have a plain text file .git at the root of your working tree, containing gitdir: to point at the real directory that has the repository.

[MartinL0815]

Do you have a plan, when to publish a next version, fixing this issue, which you categorized as enhancement? Thanks!

[sboulema]

Sorry no plan yet. Really busy with personal live at the moment (my daughter was born ❤️), so hard to find time to work on the extension :(

So for now the best I can promise: It is on my todo list and will not forget about it!

[sboulema]

Found some spare time at work, try the new release 🚀 !

https://github.com/sboulema/TGit/releases/tag/v4.15.69

[MartinL0815]

Oh wow, you found some spare time to get this issue resolved 👍 and I was from Dec. 16th out of office and unable to check this release. :( Sadly the issue is not resolved, since the path to the repository gets build in a wrong way:

In the path of the .git file points to a directory, where the gitdir file is in, which itself contains the path to the original repository I work with.

So the needed steps are:

1. detect if the file .git exists instead of a directory
2. read .git file to get the path to gitdir file
3. read gitdir file in the directory read in step 2
4. …

I'm really sorry, that I wasn't able to validate your quickly provided fix, created in the really seldom spare time as young father!

I hope, that you and your family had a good end of 2019 and a good start into 2020! All the best!

[sboulema]

Try the new release: https://github.com/sboulema/TGit/releases/tag/v4.15.72 🚀

Could you send me your gitdir file, can't find much about the format of the file content? You can reach me at vsix@sboulema.nl

[MartinL0815]

I tried the next version and it seems to work after an error message after opening initially the TGIT menu:

The gitdir is very simple, only containing the path in the first line and an empty new line:

C:/Development/git/…/PS-15.1/.git (gitdir.txt)

Thanks for your work to solve this issue!!! 👍

[Dschaehn]

I think the solution is even simpler, you can just check for the .git file as you do it for the .git directory, see #77

I dont' have much experience with git (we just switched to it), but with the fix from above my TortoiseGit works well for worktrees. I tested it with TortoiseGit 2.13.0.1 and git version 2.37.1.windows.1.

[sboulema]

Thanks for the PR!