Feature request for automatic worktree checkout

Currently if I have a branch checked out in a work-tree, git-checkout will show this error message when checking out that branch:

$ git checkout master fatal: 'master' is already checked out at '/home/dashesy/development/feature'

It would be very useful to instead of this error just change the current working directory, so git checkout would become a `cd` command

Ehsan

Ehsan Azarnasab <azarnasab@gmail.com> writes:

That is an understandable thing to want from 10,000ft view, but it would not be something Git, or any external command that is spawned by the shell for that matter, can address. You'd need to teach the shell to cooperate.

On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:33 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

You could implement this for yourself as a shell function sort of, by wrapping git, but it's a bit crazy, something like:

function git() {
  # check if first argument is checkout, otherwise exec git
  # check second argument, and parse git-worktree to determine if it
is checked out
  # if so, just cd into the directory
  # else exec git normally.
}

I'll leave actual implementations to the user. Note at least for BASH, you need to actually do this as a function alias.

Thanks, Jake