From ba089950b480a55f80dfdec1203d4835eae94957 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: cinereal <cinereal@riseup.net>
Date: Thu, 14 May 2026 16:26:05 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] feat: fall back to main worktree config in linked worktrees
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When using `git worktree add`, the linked worktree inherits
`core.hooksPath` (pointing at the common git dir's hooks) but not the
untracked `.pre-commit-config.yaml` symlink — that symlink is only
created on shell entry via `installationScript`. Until then every
`git commit` in the linked worktree fails with
"No .pre-commit-config.yaml file was found".

After `pre-commit install` writes the hook scripts, patch each one to
splice a prelude after the shebang and rewrite the `--config=` literal
in the `ARGS=` line to read from a variable resolved by that prelude.

At hook runtime the prelude resolves the config path:

1. The current toplevel's `cfg.configPath` if present.
2. Otherwise, only in a linked worktree (detected by comparing
   `git rev-parse --git-dir` against `--git-common-dir`), the main
   worktree's config.
3. Otherwise `exit 0`.

Behavior in the main worktree is unchanged: a missing config there
still produces pre-commit's normal error. A marker comment makes the
patch idempotent across repeated shell entries.

Fixes https://github.com/cachix/git-hooks.nix/issues/710

Assisted-by: Claude:claude-sonnet-4-6
---
 modules/pre-commit.nix | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+)

diff --git a/modules/pre-commit.nix b/modules/pre-commit.nix
index 75f71c11..763cd2d5 100644
--- a/modules/pre-commit.nix
+++ b/modules/pre-commit.nix
@@ -543,6 +543,37 @@ in
               # Convert the absolute path to a path relative to the toplevel working directory.
               common_dir=''${common_dir#''$GIT_WC/}
 
+              # Patch installed hook scripts to fall back to the main worktree's config in linked worktrees.
+              _prelude=$(mktemp)
+              cat > "$_prelude" <<'PRELUDE'
+        # git-hooks.nix: worktree-config-fallback
+        _git=${lib.getExe cfg.gitPackage}
+        _cfg_rel=${cfg.configPath}
+        _top=$("$_git" rev-parse --show-toplevel)
+        _config="$_top/$_cfg_rel"
+        if [ ! -e "$_config" ]; then
+          _dir=$("$_git" rev-parse --git-dir)
+          _common=$("$_git" rev-parse --path-format=absolute --git-common-dir)
+          if [ "$_dir" != "$_common" ]; then
+            _alt="$(dirname "$_common")/$_cfg_rel"
+            if [ -e "$_alt" ]; then
+              _config="$_alt"
+            else
+              exit 0
+            fi
+          fi
+        fi
+PRELUDE
+              for hook in ${concatStringsSep " " (remove "manual" supportedHooksLib.supportedHooks)}; do
+                hook_file="''${GIT_WC}/''${common_dir}/hooks/''${hook}"
+                [ -f "''${hook_file}" ] || continue
+                if ! grep -qF '# git-hooks.nix: worktree-config-fallback' "''${hook_file}"; then
+                  sed -i "1r ''${_prelude}" "''${hook_file}"
+                  sed -i 's|--config=${cfg.configPath}|--config="$_config"|' "''${hook_file}"
+                fi
+              done
+              rm -f "$_prelude"
+
               ${lib.getExe cfg.gitPackage} config --local core.hooksPath "''$common_dir/hooks"
             fi
           fi