pnpm: use global virtual store

[OliverJAsh]

See https://pnpm.io/11.x/git-worktrees. Note pnpm i on first run will prompt you to reinstall your node_modules.

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[Copilot]

Pull request overview

Updates workspace tooling/docs to better support working from Git/Codex worktrees by centralizing pnpm’s virtual store behavior and standardizing Lite commands to run within the Nix devshell.

Changes:

• Enable pnpm’s global virtual store for the workspace.
• Update Lite agent instructions to run pnpm commands via nix develop -c ….
• Add a Codex environment definition that installs deps and provides a “Lite: typecheck” action.

Reviewed changes

Copilot reviewed 3 out of 3 changed files in this pull request and generated no comments.

File	Description
pnpm-workspace.yaml	Enables enableGlobalVirtualStore to reduce duplication across worktrees.
apps/lite/AGENTS.md	Documents running Lite typecheck/lint/format commands inside the Nix flake devshell.
.codex/environments/environment.toml	Adds Codex environment setup and a Lite typecheck action using the Nix devshell.

[samhh]

A Bluesky thread about this because also TIL: https://bsky.app/profile/patak.cat/post/3mj5ttmrb3s2s

[Byron]

While this isn't merged, is this something we can try personally with pnpm config set --global enableGlobalVirtualStore true?

Answer: it definitely seems to be effective.
Somehow I am hesitant as I am not sure if this breaks Windows?

[Byron]

I put it back to draft to prevent accidental merges. The reason is that it seems to break the tauri dev workflow.

To reproduce

• enable the setting with pnpm config set --global enableGlobalVirtualStore true
• run pnpm install
• run pnpm tauri dev

Now I see :

❯ GITBUTLER_PERFORMANCE_LOG=1 LOG_LEVEL=debug pnpm tauri dev --no-watch

> root@ tauri /Users/byron/dev/github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler
> cross-env "CARGO_TARGET_DIR=$PNPM_SCRIPT_SRC_DIR/target/tauri" tauri dev --no-watch

     Running BeforeDevCommand (`pnpm dev:internal-tauri`)

> root@ dev:internal-tauri /Users/byron/dev/github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler
> turbo watch --filter @gitbutler/desktop dev

• turbo 2.8.17
• Packages in scope: @gitbutler/desktop
• Running dev in 1 packages
• Remote caching disabled
@gitbutler/core:package: cache hit, replaying logs 18578aa40f6f244d
@gitbutler/core:package:
@gitbutler/core:package:
@gitbutler/core:package: > @gitbutler/core@0.0.1 package /Users/byron/dev/github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler.edit-mode-errors/packages/core
@gitbutler/core:package: > tsc -p tsconfig.json
@gitbutler/core:package:
@gitbutler/svelte-comment-injector:package: cache hit, replaying logs 7e417a65d739511c
@gitbutler/svelte-comment-injector:package:
@gitbutler/svelte-comment-injector:package:
@gitbutler/svelte-comment-injector:package: > @gitbutler/svelte-comment-injector@1.0.1 package /Users/byron/dev/github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler.wire-change-ids/packages/svelte-comment-injector
@gitbutler/svelte-comment-injector:package: > tsc
@gitbutler/svelte-comment-injector:package:
@gitbutler/ui:package: cache miss, executing 838b1bb92b773dd3
@gitbutler/ui:package:
@gitbutler/ui:package:
@gitbutler/ui:package: > @gitbutler/ui@0.0.2 package /Users/byron/dev/github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler/packages/ui
@gitbutler/ui:package: > pnpm run --sequential "/^package:.*/"
@gitbutler/ui:package:
@gitbutler/ui:package:
@gitbutler/ui:package: > @gitbutler/ui@0.0.2 package:svelte /Users/byron/dev/github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler/packages/ui
@gitbutler/ui:package: > svelte-kit sync && svelte-package
@gitbutler/ui:package:
        Warn Waiting for your frontend dev server to start on http://localhost:1420/...
@gitbutler/ui:package: > You need to install TypeScript if you want to transpile TypeScript files and/or generate type definitions
@gitbutler/ui:package:     at try_load_ts (file:///Users/byron/Library/pnpm/store/v10/links/@sveltejs/package/2.5.7/35b120a59b777f30120496fcd3c6e6deb253a22b78fa0e2e38900623f2b61f5c/node_modules/@sveltejs/package/src/typescript.js:118:9)
@gitbutler/ui:package:     at async load_tsconfig (file:///Users/byron/Library/pnpm/store/v10/links/@sveltejs/package/2.5.7/35b120a59b777f30120496fcd3c6e6deb253a22b78fa0e2e38900623f2b61f5c/node_modules/@sveltejs/package/src/typescript.js:132:8)
@gitbutler/ui:package:     at async process_file (file:///Users/byron/Library/pnpm/store/v10/links/@sveltejs/package/2.5.7/35b120a59b777f30120496fcd3c6e6deb253a22b78fa0e2e38900623f2b61f5c/node_modules/@sveltejs/package/src/index.js:275:20)
@gitbutler/ui:package:     at async do_build (file:///Users/byron/Library/pnpm/store/v10/links/@sveltejs/package/2.5.7/35b120a59b777f30120496fcd3c6e6deb253a22b78fa0e2e38900623f2b61f5c/node_modules/@sveltejs/package/src/index.js:51:3)
@gitbutler/ui:package:     at async Module.build (file:///Users/byron/Library/pnpm/store/v10/links/@sveltejs/package/2.5.7/35b120a59b777f30120496fcd3c6e6deb253a22b78fa0e2e38900623f2b61f5c/node_modules/@sveltejs/package/src/index.js:23:2)
@gitbutler/ui:package:     at async file:///Users/byron/Library/pnpm/store/v10/links/@sveltejs/package/2.5.7/35b120a59b777f30120496fcd3c6e6deb253a22b78fa0e2e38900623f2b61f5c/node_modules/@sveltejs/package/src/cli.js:57:4
@gitbutler/ui:package:  ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.
@gitbutler/ui:package:
@gitbutler/ui:package: > @gitbutler/ui@0.0.2 package:styles /Users/byron/dev/github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler/packages/ui
@gitbutler/ui:package: > postcss ./src/styles/main.css -o ./dist/styles/main.css
@gitbutler/ui:package:
@gitbutler/ui:package:  ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 1.
@gitbutler/ui:package: ERROR: command finished with error: command (/Users/byron/dev/github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler/packages/ui) /opt/homebrew/bin/pnpm run package exited (1)
@gitbutler/ui#package: command (/Users/byron/dev/github.com/gitbutlerapp/gitbutler/packages/ui) /opt/homebrew/bin/pnpm run package exited (1)
        Warn Waiting for your frontend dev server to start on http://localhost:1420/...
^C    ...Finishing writing to cache...                                                                                                                                                                                  ELIFECYCLE  Command failed.
 ELIFECYCLE  Command failed with exit code 130.

It complains about not having typescript?

Maybe this can be fixed though, CC @mtsgrd .

I turned that setting back off, then re-installed with pnpm install, and tauri ran like before.

[OliverJAsh]

Closing for now as I don't plan to work on this, but happy for someone else to pick it up!