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Auto-resolve graph location from git worktrees (git-common-dir) #2008

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@uitholland

Problem. The graph (graphify-out/) lives in the main checkout. Running graphify explain from a git worktree fails hard ("graph file not found"), so every worktree-based workflow needs a wrapper like:

(cd "$(git rev-parse --path-format=absolute --git-common-dir)/.." && graphify explain "<symbol>")

With AI-agent workflows (Claude Code etc.) increasingly running every task in its own worktree, this is a growing friction point: the workaround has to be carried in project rules and breaks when the cwd disappears mid-session.

Proposal. On startup, when no graphify-out/ is found in the current root, detect a worktree via git rev-parse --git-common-dir and fall back to the main checkout's graph (read-only). A --graph-dir override would also help.

Environment. graphifyy 0.8.36, macOS, ~1.8k-file PHP/JS repo, graph built code-only (no LLM pass).

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