Re: Feature request: support listing worktrees sorted by creation time

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 5, 2026, 15:50 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <CAM+g_Nt8vZX4NxPvddJxNvSRgdMWQaLg2O9xzAU1pTHa=Et-gw@mail.gmail.com>

Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@gmail.com> writes:

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> I have multiple repos with more than 20 worktrees, and sometimes
> forget the name of a recently added worktree. Therefore it would
> really be nice if I could use something like ‘git worktree list
> —created’ to list them by their creation timestamp. Is that something
> that makes sense to you as well? I could also create a pull request
> for this if you would like it.

I do not think we have any _record_ of when each of these worktrees was created, so this is not a realistic request.

The output from "git worktree list" may be more than 20 lines, but isn't your terminal taller than 20 lines ;-)?

Since very early days of Git, we have created .git/description file that is not used very much (I think it is shown in gitweb). Perhaps worktree should have an equivalent in per-worktree part of their .git/ directory and "git worktree list --verbose" can use its contents in addition to the additional pieces information it already shows, or something like that, perhaps?