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Re: [PATCH] worktree: add: introduce the --name option

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date
Jul 19, 2016, 18:52 UTC
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On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 2:04 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
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> Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@ack.tf> writes:
>> Adds a --name option allowing to specify the name of a worktree when
>> creating it. This allows to have multiple worktrees in directories
>> having the same name (e.g. project0/foo, project1/foo etc...). This
>> commit keeps the previous behaviour by making it the default value, i.e.
>> by using $(basename <path>) as the worktree name when the --name option
>> isn't used.
>
> Hmm, is this related to an earlier discussion
>
>     https://public-inbox.org/git/20160625051548.95564-1-barret%40brennie.ca/
>
> in any way, or is it an independent invention?
>
> The conclusion of that discussion thread was roughly "users
> shouldn't even _care_ about the name, and if they have to use name
> to identify the worktrees to do certain things right now, reducing
> the need for such 'certain things', not making it easy to give a
> user-defined name to a worktree, is the way to go", IIRC.

Yes, that's correct. The discussion wandered a bit before starting to converge at [1] and concluding at [2].

[1]: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAPig%2BcRNUZZBw%3DF-Q2f3Ehc-8T2iBp4kvDusNRGv4ea5nihQVQ%40mail.gmail.com/ [2]: https://public-inbox.org/git/CAPig%2BcSEwib1iFyWE5h8-qTbsAC%2BzsaSDSYQnv6otWoOOjWAeA%40mail.gmail.com/

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  1. worktree: add: introduce the --name optionAntoine Tenart, Jul 19, 2016
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2016
  3. Duy NguyenJul 19, 2016
  4. Antoine TenartJul 19, 2016
  5. Duy NguyenJul 19, 2016
  6. Eric SunshineJul 19, 2016
  7. Antoine TenartJul 19, 2016
  8. Duy NguyenJul 20, 2016
  9. Antoine TenartJul 20, 2016
  10. Antoine TenartJul 19, 2016
  11. Junio C HamanoJul 19, 2016
  12. Antoine TenartJul 19, 2016
  13. Eric SunshineJul 19, 2016
  14. Antoine TenartJul 20, 2016

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