mellions-territorylisted

<!-- Mellions Engineer | LetA Tech Ltd. | leta@letatech.ca --> # Territory **Untracked means nobody has committed a file. It does not mean nobody owns it.** `??` in `git status` is a statement about the index. It says nothing about who holds that file, whether they are still working, or whether it is their only copy. An engineer that reads it as *stray* will eventually delete somebody's work, and the deletion is not recoverable by realising afterwards. ## Establish who is here before you write ``` mellions who live sessions on this repository, and every working tree git knows about mellions who -all every live session on this machine ``` Two voices, never merged. A **registered session** said which tree and repository it is in, with the assignment it carries. A **working tree** is one git knows about whether or not anyone said so — and that is the case that has already cost somebody a file. A tree no assignment claims is not free; it is a lane you cannot identify. Both are printed with no hedge and have been wrong: a reissued pid reads as a live session, one process with two ids reads as two, and you can be shown *yourself*, then decline your own work. Where a peer count would change what you do, spend one command — `ps -o pid=,lstart= -p <pid>` against the record, or a message to the session. A peer that does not answer and whose process predates its own record is not a peer. ## Work in your own lane ``` mellions assign open -id <id> -repo <repo> -o