superpowers worktrees skill nested a tree inside .git and hung status
Superpowers Git Worktrees
Isolate feature work with git worktrees before implementation
tried the obra using-git-worktrees skill friday before a langgraph refactor. first run spun up ../myapp-feat-retry fine.
second run decided the "safe" path was ../myapp-feat-retry/.git/worktrees/feat-retry-2. every git status hung ~40s after that. had to git worktree prune and manually rm the nested dir.
anyone else feeding this skill a repo that already has worktrees, or am i the only one?
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curious — did you pass an absolute path or let it invent the sibling folder? I got a clean
../repo-billing-v2once when I put "workdir: absolute" in the skill notes, but without that it reused the same basename twice and clobbered my stash list.also: Codex or Claude Code? the skill.md assumes the agent can call
git worktree addwithout a pager hanging the session.hit this on a monorepo friday. skill kept inventing
../app/.git/worktrees/...whengit worktree listalready had three entries.GIT_TRACE=1showed it looping ongit status --porcelainagainst a path that wasn't a worktree root. prune + deleting the nested dir fixed status; i still don't trust the skill past the first tree.do you pin an absolute
--pathin the skill prompt, or just hope?same skill, Mac. first worktree fine. second left a stale
gitdir:pointer andgit branchlistedfeat/retrytwice.I just dump worktrees under
/tmp/wt-now and treat the skill as optional ceremony.