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Github-Branch based Auto-Session-Management

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#43 opened on Apr 29, 2022

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What? I quite like advanced session management as in existing plugins (rmagatti/auto-session, jedrzejboczar/possession.nvim), but they lack one feature per default: automatic session management as of current git-branch (reflecting current working ticket). Additionally I'd like to see a picker as well, just in case an old task gets picked up again in a new (bugfix/chore/...)-branch and I want to reuse that old session of the old branch

Why? Session management is useful if you work on the same project, right? But inside of a project, I usually got different sessions/layouts/tabpages as per task, which is usually reflected by specific branches.

Potential existing implementations: https://github.com/superDross/ticket.vim

Potential pitfalls: ?

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Research direction
Study existing Neovim session plugins like auto session and possession.nvim to understand session saving/restoring mechanisms. Explore how to retrieve the current git branch and integrate it with session naming. Consider implementing a picker using telescope or fzf lua to list sessions by branch.
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