Multi-machine use-case

[pcoves]

Hi there!

Awesome work here and thanks for the video. It really helps getting into it at first!

I skimmed through the documentation and can't find how to handle my current use-case: I use multiple (two actually) computers; One is my personal machine with, say, ~/code/* and the other is my work machine with ~/code/{perso,pro}/*.
Basically, the ~/code on my personal box contains the same directories as ~/code/perso on the employer-provided system.

I see one can tell where to store Mind's metadata and I've not issue with sharing them through a NextCloud instance or whatever fits here.
My question is actually about the CWD-based trees: I'd love to have a way to set some sort of custom root so that I can tell Mind that ~/code and ~/code/perso are the same base path when it comes to this kind of tree. Is this feasible?

I understand the easy solution is to use local trees but there is no way I clutter my coworkers filesystem with Mind files.

Many thanks in advance for your insights and kudos to you for this awesome piece of code!

[hadronized]

Global trees will always have an absolute path, so if you set them up with ~/code/<something>, then you need that exact same path on your work machine.

Currently there is no way to fix your problem besides ensuring you use the exact same path. Something that could work (and would be pretty simple to implement) would be a map override: check the current cwd, pass it through a map to change it, and resolve that. So that you can have a map override on your work machine that basically says ~/code/perso -> ~/code.

That makes me realize that it could, actually, even be more powerful than that and associate unique IDs, like ~/code/perso/<something> -> tree-<something>.

I’m currently planning some work for the v3, that’s probably going to end up there.

[pcoves]

Thanks for your quick answer!

I'll wait for this next iteration then.

Feel free to close this issue whenever you want 🙏