Re: What is the reason behind not hiding git worktrees from git?

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 1, 2025, 22:27 UTC
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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

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> skip over them when scanning the output. Moreover, I think this is the
> first time that we have (on the list, at least) heard a complaint
> about the "noise", which may suggest that this is a non-issue for most
> people, and that a warning telling people to avoid the practice would
> be unwelcome.

Ah, different people guess different reasons out of the same observation. My interpretation of this is the first time about the complaint on "noise" was because everybody else would not even have additional worktree in-tree.

> Aside: It might be valuable to extend the documentation to add a
> discussion about hanging worktrees off of a bare repository. People do
> use such a workflow, and git-worktree officially supports it, but I
> don't think there is any in-project documentation which mentions it.

Oh, that is an obvious thing to do, too, to attach "additional" worktrees to a bare repository (which does not have the primary worktree). I do not think anybody sane would add these worktrees in-tree if the repository is bare, though.