From be6e168bb3bdd68678d999b37b2abb0dc5f5e138 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@highlab.com>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2025 12:42:47 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] update 'description' in issue 317ea8ccac1d414cde55771321bdec3

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 317ea8ccac1d414cde55771321bdec3/description | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 317ea8ccac1d414cde55771321bdec3/description

diff --git a/317ea8ccac1d414cde55771321bdec3/description b/317ea8ccac1d414cde55771321bdec3/description
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+allow multiple read-only ent processes simultaneously
+
+Currently every time `ent` checks out a worktree of its "issues database",
+it uses the local branch `entomologist-data`.  This means only one
+worktree can exist at a time, because each branch can only be checked
+out into at most one worktree.
+
+Some ent operations are read-only which means we could `git worktree add`
+the `origin/entomologist-data` branch instead, which uses a detached HEAD
+checkout, which is sufficient for read-only operations like `ent list`
+and `ent show`.
+
+This would be useful if you're sitting in `ent edit ${ISSUE_1}` and want
+to look at another issue with `ent show ${ISSUE_2}` or list the issues
+with `ent list`.