From: Jason Cho <jason11choca@proton.me>
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 21:26:54 GMT
Subject: Re: What is the reason behind not hiding git worktrees from git?
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I think the best practice is to not add a work tre within the master work tree.

Suppose a repo is at the master branch, and you export a work tree in the directory f.

Then, you check out the main repo to another branch which so happens to have a file named f. In this case, the check-out will fail due to the name collision.