From ac81e470cfecaf8387ff621bd36ced28e56ee3fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeff Carr <jcarr@wit.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2025 10:44:52 -0500
Subject: some working on seperate cache / mode settings

---
 Makefile              |  2 +-
 argv.go               |  5 +++++
 build                 |  3 +++
 complete.go           | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
 doNormal.go           | 18 +++++-------------
 resources/golang.text |  7 +++++++
 6 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 resources/golang.text

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a39f753..2e739cc 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ BUILDTIME = $(shell date +%s)
 # make andlabs   # try the andlabs gui plugin (uses GTK)
 
 default: install
-	forge
+	forge --verbose
 
 redo: clean
 	forge generate clean
diff --git a/argv.go b/argv.go
index c7d5eeb..fe8ad2f 100644
--- a/argv.go
+++ b/argv.go
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ package main
 var argv args
 
 type args struct {
+	Cache       *CacheCmd    `arg:"subcommand:cache"                     help:"chose the cache of repos to work with"`
 	Clean       *CleanCmd    `arg:"subcommand:clean"                     help:"'git clean' + reset repos to original state"`
 	Commit      *CommitCmd   `arg:"subcommand:commit"                    help:"'git commit'"`
 	Gui         *EmptyCmd    `arg:"subcommand:gui"                       help:"open the gui"`
@@ -115,6 +116,10 @@ type GenerateCmd struct {
 	Strict  bool      `arg:"--strict"                  help:"die if any namespaces are missing"`
 }
 
+type CacheCmd struct {
+	Filename string `arg:"positional"`
+}
+
 type CleanCmd struct {
 	List *EmptyCmd `arg:"subcommand:list"             help:"list not clean repos"`
 }
diff --git a/build b/build
index a04e4c0..ffcc1e0 100755
--- a/build
+++ b/build
@@ -6,3 +6,6 @@ cp ../utils/wit-utils/forgeConfig/forgeConfig files/usr/bin/
 
 mkdir -p files/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/
 forge --bash > files/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/forge
+
+mkdir -p files/usr/share/doc/forge
+cp resources/gopath.text files/usr/share/doc/forge
diff --git a/complete.go b/complete.go
index 191cf90..83c00de 100644
--- a/complete.go
+++ b/complete.go
@@ -103,6 +103,11 @@ func (a args) DoAutoComplete() error {
 			fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stderr, "returned from parseFlagsArgv(%v)\n", err)
 		}
 	}
+	if argvpb.PB.IsMatch("cache") {
+		matches, _ := matchCacheFiles()
+		fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stdout, matches)
+		return nil
+	}
 	if argvpb.PB.IsMatch("mode.--config") {
 		matches, _ := matchModeDirs()
 		fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stdout, matches)
@@ -116,7 +121,7 @@ func (a args) DoAutoComplete() error {
 	}
 	if argvpb.PB.GetCmd() == "" {
 		// these are base autocomplete strings
-		matches := []string{"clean", "commit", "merge", "patch", "normal", "pull", "rebuild", "generate", "config"}
+		matches := []string{"clean", "commit", "merge", "patch", "normal", "pull", "rebuild", "generate", "config", "cache"}
 		matches = append(matches, "show", "add", "fixer", "dev", "verify", "mode", "gui", "whatchanged")
 		matches = append(matches, "--version", "--force", "--all", "--verbose")
 		fmt.Fprintf(argvpb.Stdout, strings.Join(matches, " "))
@@ -144,3 +149,18 @@ func matchModeDirs() (string, error) {
 	// log.Info("glob:", globPattern, "matchdirs:", match)
 	return match, err
 }
+
+func matchCacheFiles() (string, error) {
+	configDir, _ := os.UserCacheDir()
+	globPattern := filepath.Join(configDir, "forge", "repos*.pb")
+	files, err := filepath.Glob(globPattern)
+	match := "all golang homedir"
+	for _, file := range files {
+		if config.IsDir(file) {
+			_, base := filepath.Split(file)
+			match += base + " "
+		}
+	}
+	// log.Info("glob:", globPattern, "matchdirs:", match)
+	return match, err
+}
diff --git a/doNormal.go b/doNormal.go
index cf333fd..e8ccd68 100644
--- a/doNormal.go
+++ b/doNormal.go
@@ -28,20 +28,9 @@ func doNormalAll() (string, error) {
 	var err error
 
 	me.curpatches = forgepb.NewPatches()
-	me.curpatches.Filename = env.Get("curpatches")
-	if me.curpatches.Filename == "" {
-		panic("config failed. no 'curpatches' set in ~/.config/forge/config.text")
-	}
+	me.curpatches.Filename = config.MakeCacheFilename("forge", "curpatches")
 	if err := me.curpatches.Load(); err != nil {
-		me.curpatches.Save()
-		me.curpatches.Save()
-		log.Info(err)
 		panic("no file")
-		// return
-		// // THIS IS NEEDED? NOTSURE
-		me.curpatches = forgepb.NewPatches()
-		me.curpatches.Filename = env.Get("curpatches")
-		me.curpatches.Save()
 	}
 
 	psets := forgepb.NewSets()
@@ -62,6 +51,9 @@ func doNormalAll() (string, error) {
 }
 
 func (a *args) DoNormal() (string, error) {
+	env.Set("modeDir", "jwc")
+	env.Save()
+	panic("donormal. yay")
 	return doNormalAttempt()
 }
 
@@ -273,7 +265,7 @@ func checkNormalRepoState(repo *gitpb.Repo) error {
 	// verify read-only
 	if me.forge.Config.IsReadOnly(repo.GetNamespace()) != repo.GetReadOnly() {
 		repo.ReadOnly = me.forge.Config.IsReadOnly(repo.GetNamespace())
-		log.Info("damnit", repo.FullPath)
+		log.Info("readonly bit wrong", repo.FullPath)
 		err = log.Errorf("readonly bit wrong")
 	}
 	return err
diff --git a/resources/golang.text b/resources/golang.text
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..34ba92f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/resources/golang.text
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+uuid:  "1941cd4f-1cfd-4bf6-aa75-c2c391907e81"
+version:  "v0.0.48 go.wit.com/lib/protobuf/forgepb"
+ForgeConfigs:  {
+  namespace:  "go.wit.com"
+  writable:  true
+  directory:  true
+}
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