Re: [PATCH] worktree: add: introduce the --name option

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jul 19, 2016, 18:04 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq7fchh5bo.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160719144701.571-1-antoine.tenart@ack.tf>

Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@ack.tf> writes:

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> Adds a --name option allowing to specify the name of a worktree when
> creating it. This allows to have multiple worktrees in directories
> having the same name (e.g. project0/foo, project1/foo etc...). This
> commit keeps the previous behaviour by making it the default value, i.e.
> by using $(basename <path>) as the worktree name when the --name option
> isn't used.
>
> Two new test cases are added to ensure the --name option does not break
> other functionalities and is working properly.
>
> Finally, the documentation is updated to reflect this --name option
> addition.
>
> Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@ack.tf>
> ---

Hmm, is this related to an earlier discussion

    https://public-inbox.org/git/20160625051548.95564-1-barret%40brennie.ca/

in any way, or is it an independent invention?

The conclusion of that discussion thread was roughly "users shouldn't even _care_ about the name, and if they have to use name to identify the worktrees to do certain things right now, reducing the need for such 'certain things', not making it easy to give a user-defined name to a worktree, is the way to go", IIRC.