From: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2018 12:02:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] worktree: teach "add" to check out existing branches
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.21.1801210701340.22979@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <20180121120208.12760-1-t.gummerer@gmail.com>

On Sun, 21 Jan 2018, Thomas Gummerer wrote:

> Currently 'git worktree add <path>' creates a new branch named after the
> basename of the path by default.  If a branch with that name already
> exists, the command refuses to do anything, unless the '--force' option
> is given.
>
> However we can do a little better than that, and check the branch out if
> it is not checked out anywhere else.  This will help users who just want
> to check an existing branch out into a new worktree, and save a few
> keystrokes.
>
> As the current behaviour is to simply 'die()' when a brach with the name
                                                       ^^^^^