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

From: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Date: Mar 10, 2016, 20:45 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPig+cTjD7=jkyvQLwUAec3gNjWLjizqaiKJTu6XbhXHDgF3GA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8BA7-ev9wTt6K45TgiNxOaBUXbN1P03U4EUAzAPy=7Faw@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
>> The invention of the `git worktree` command changed this developer's
>> working style dramatically. Rather than switching between branches all
>> the time, topic branches are created and checked out in newly-added
>> worktrees, to be reworked and refined until the topic branch is either
>> merged into `master` or abandoned.
>>
>> 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?

There's also the even shorter form:

    git worktree add pull-rebase-prefix

which creates both a branch and a worktree named "pull-rebase-prefix". This assumes that you want the new branch based upon HEAD, which won't work if your use-case is different and that you're not already at the desired commit ("origin/master" in your example) when invoking the command, though.