Re: What is the reason behind not hiding git worktrees from git?

From: Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 1, 2025, 12:16 UTC
Message-ID: <E311F5BA-F88C-4C3D-88B5-F8508B106D41@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <aNuy1aab954D3rJ1@kitsune.suse.cz>

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> Le 30 sept. 2025 à 06:41, Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> a écrit :
> 
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 09:08:44PM +0000, Jason Cho wrote:
>>> It does not not show its own .git directory as untracked files
>>> 
>>> That can be seen as inconsistent.
>> 
>> Well, I see your point. Since the .git directory is from a git repo, the directory is ignored by git. Therefore, you want git to also ignore other items derived from the repo, including work trees.
>> 
>> However, this is a minor improvement and I suspect your proposed feature may have an unknown impact.
> 
> The impact is that the list of worktrees would have to be read to get
> status. As status is not particularly cheap operation in any case I
> would expect the problem to be minor.

I believe status information is used for the shell prompt info, so performance hits there have a cost.