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

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 10, 2016, 13:24 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1603101422190.4690@virtualbox>
In-Reply-To: <CACsJy8D7+sXF9gRj15kidgK_xzSVHqChSFdqHpJ3PwxMOw2rHA@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Duy,

On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote:

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> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:51 PM, Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> 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?
> 
> Another option is just do "worktree -b xyz . upstream/master"
> 
> when the destination already exists and is a directory, the real
> worktree location is <dest>/<branch name>. Similar to "mv abc def"
> becomes "mv abc def/abc" when def is already a directory.

Hmm. That sounds too clever to me. It is clever, alright, but it is also confusing: "Wait, what? Where is my... Darn! It already existed! And now I have my-cool-worktree/my-cool-worktree/! Blergh."

Please count that as mild opposition to that idea :-)

Ciao, Dscho