From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 20:48:54 GMT
Subject: Re: What is the reason behind not hiding git worktrees from git?
Message-ID: <xmqqa52a1h6x.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <875xcyfk3k.fsf@osv.gnss.ru>

Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com> writes:

> Also, I'm almost sure that the first thing almost every worktree novice
> does (I did), quite naturally, is:
>
> $ git wotktree add <branch>
>
> that happily succeeds /anywhere/ inside primary worktree without any
> warning for me. It probably should either have created $top/../<branch>
> instead, or refuse to proceed without confirmation in the first place.

Yeah, I almost never type 'git worktree add <directory>' without
"../" at the beginning of the directory, and every time I do so, I
do wonder if this is a UI pitfall that we should warn the users
about.  Perhaps we should start from documentation updates and
possibly a new warning or two?

Thanks.