From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Sergey Organov <sorganov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ben Knoble" <ben.knoble@gmail.com>,
"Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>,
"Jason Cho" <jason11choca@proton.me>,
"Jakub T. Jankiewicz" <jcubic@jcubic.pl>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is the reason behind not hiding git worktrees from git?
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2025 13:48:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqa52a1h6x.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875xcyfk3k.fsf@osv.gnss.ru> (Sergey Organov's message of "Wed, 01 Oct 2025 23:22:23 +0300")
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-01 20:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 44+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-27 13:28 What is the reason behind not hiding git worktrees from git? Jakub T. Jankiewicz
2025-09-27 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-27 17:55 ` Michal Suchánek
2025-09-27 21:08 ` Jason Cho
2025-09-27 21:26 ` Jason Cho
2025-09-30 10:30 ` Michal Suchánek
2025-09-30 15:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-11-19 8:13 ` Michal Suchánek
2025-09-30 10:37 ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-01 12:16 ` Ben Knoble
2025-10-01 18:54 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-01 20:22 ` Sergey Organov
2025-10-01 20:48 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2025-10-01 21:27 ` Jakub T. Jankiewicz
2025-10-01 22:07 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-01 21:29 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-10-01 22:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02 8:38 ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-02 13:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02 15:51 ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: git-worktree: Link to examples Michal Suchanek
2025-10-02 17:42 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-10-02 17:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02 18:55 ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-05 20:52 ` Jean-Noël AVILA
2025-10-10 17:10 ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-10 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 " Michal Suchanek
2025-10-11 4:40 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-10-10 17:04 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] doc: git-worktree: Add side by side branch checkout example Michal Suchanek
2025-10-11 5:17 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-10-23 19:40 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-24 10:15 ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-24 16:57 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-11-18 12:01 ` Michal Suchánek
2025-11-19 7:19 ` Eric Sunshine
2026-01-20 20:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02 15:51 ` [PATCH " Michal Suchanek
2025-10-02 17:51 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-10-02 18:46 ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-02 18:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02 18:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02 18:39 ` Michal Suchánek
2025-11-17 22:36 ` What is the reason behind not hiding git worktrees from git? Johannes Schindelin
2025-11-17 22:57 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02 2:33 ` Ben Knoble
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