Re: worktree duplicates, was: [PATCH] SubmittingPatches: mention doc-diff

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Aug 27, 2018, 09:55 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cQMv=ByvmH=+V3hZ1NC-=eT+CShuM7g+Y4evD1nVFr4XQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180824232502.GA21265@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 7:25 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

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> On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 06:55:24PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 10:47 AM Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I was thinking that "worktree add" could start respecting the --force
> > > > option as an escape hatch.
> > >
> > > Sounds good. Eric are you going to implement this? Just checking so
> > > that I can (hopefully) cross this off my backlog ;-)
> >
> > It wasn't something I was planning on working on (at least not
> > immediately) [...]
> > As for the actual implementation, I haven't yet looked at how much
> > surgery will be needed to make 'add' respect --force.
>
> Me either. I may take a look this weekend. [...]

Okay, I got an implementation up and running. It didn't require too much code, but neither was it a simple 1- or 2-liner.

I still need to update documentation, write tests, and compose the actual patch series (which will probably run to about 5 patches), so it's not quite ready to send out, but hopefully soon.