Re: [PATCH 0/1] Introduce a way to create a branch and worktree at the same time

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 10, 2016, 11:59 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8D7+sXF9gRj15kidgK_xzSVHqChSFdqHpJ3PwxMOw2rHA@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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>> It gets rather tiresome, and also typo-prone, to call "git branch xyz
>> upstream/master && git worktree add xyz xyz" all the time.
>
> You can actually do "git worktree -b xyz xyz upstream/master" for the
> same effect. Maybe we can avoid "xyz" duplication with "-b -" or a new
> option name?

Another option is just do "worktree -b xyz . upstream/master"

when the destination already exists and is a directory, the real worktree location is <dest>/<branch name>. Similar to "mv abc def" becomes "mv abc def/abc" when def is already a directory.

-- 
Duy