I saw tobi's try the other day and was impressed by an idea: you often do one-off stuff that is not surely will end up permanent enough, so why not automate creation and search?

But his try.rb implemented interface from scratch in Ruby. And I love fzf that I decided to rewrite the logic in shell (yeah I know brilliant right? /s). So here we go.

Get the script, put it anywhere, chmod +x it, and ./try it. It'll tell you how to make it permanent.

NOTE: there is no good way around that pesky eval since shell scripts are executed in subshells and so cannot change directory of your login shell. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

~/.tryrc:

DIR=~/dev/tries # Directory to store experiments at

• Selection using fzf - so fuzzy matching etc
• Access time aware sorting
• worktrees: run try . [new-name] or try worktree [new-name] and it'll create a new worktree for this repo