From: Zhang Lei Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 12:06:51 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] worktree: add: introduce --checkout option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: Yes, path basename makes sense. I am asking this question because we have some legacy code requires that working tree called something like 'src', as a result, multiple branch would have src1 src2 src3 under .git/worktrees which could not be easy to maintain. I agreed with you, we should give users such option. 2016-03-25 19:41 GMT+08:00 Duy Nguyen : > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Zhang Lei wrote: >> By the way, Duy, another unrelated question: why worktree name under >> .git/worktrees is being named >> after the working tree path basename? I think branch name is more >> reasonable since we don't allow checking out >> the same branch twice. > > Because branch name is not always available (e.g. detached HEAD) and > checkout branch can be switched later on. And normally you'll get > branch name there anyway with "git worktree add something" because the > branch "something" is automatically created. I've been wondering if > it's worth supporting "git worktree -b abc ./" where we create > worktree "./abc" based on branch name too. > -- > Duy