From: Mike Rappazzo Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 13:02:11 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] worktree: add: introduce --checkout option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 7:41 AM, Duy Nguyen wrote: > 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. You can switch to any other branch in a worktree. Consider that you could switch branches in worktrees such that you could eventually end up having the branches swapped from original worktree setup.