Re: [PATCH v8 3/4] worktree add: add --orphan flag

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 19, 2023, 16:32 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq1qnq32oa.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <230119.86zgaev8ko.gmgdl@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> I also think that UX suggestion is sensible, but if we do that we
> shouldn't just apply that to "git worktree", but also change the the
> corresponding "git switch" UX, on which this new "git worktree --orphan"
> is modeled.

But the thing is that "worktree --orphan" that wants to implicitly infer the name of the branch out of the basename of the worktree cannot be sensibly modeled after "switch" or "checkout" that do not have such a dwimmery.

In any case, fixing UI mistakes after the fact is always painful once it is in the released version. When we know there is a new UI mistake in an unreleased version, it is sensible to grab the rare opportunity that we can avoid such a costly fixes later.

So, I am not quite convinced by what you said, at least not yet.

Thanks.