From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 17:32:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 0/4] worktree add: improve message for ambiguous remote branch name
Message-ID: <xmqq4igfa2pv.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <pull.2197.v10.git.1787841717.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

"Yoichi NAKAYAMA via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:

> 'git worktree add ../foo-dir bar-topic' fails to dwim when there are
> multiple remote branches with name `bar-topic'. But it doesn't display
> meaningful message as 'git checkout bar-topic' does under the same
> situation.
>
> We improve this by adding advice and modify the error message for worktree
> add.
>
> By Junio's suggestion, we include matched remote names in the advice. It is
> applied to checkout, too.
>
> We also fix the behavior of --guess-remote when there are multiple matches.
>
> Changes from the previous patch:
>
>  * [1/4] fix the function name and add detailed commit message
>  * [2/4] change type of tracking_name_data.remote_names

This iteration looks good to me.  Let's mark it for 'next' unless
we hear other comments in a few days.

Thanks.