From: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Jakub T. Jankiewicz" <jcubic@jcubic.pl>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is the reason behind not hiding git worktrees from git?
Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2025 19:55:27 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aNglDzeOT5_4ZbdV@kitsune.suse.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqq4isn96s7.fsf@gitster.g>
On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 09:52:56AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> "Jakub T. Jankiewicz" <jcubic@jcubic.pl> writes:
>
> > Why git work trees are are not automatically ignored by git?
>
> Because there is no reason to ignore them, and ignoring them would
> be annoyingly inconvenient. Worktrees are not special and treated
> the same way as an ordinary Git working tree with embedded .git
> directory.
Sure, that's another repository.
It does not not show its own .git directory as untracked files although
it is in the main worktree, though.
So why another worktree of the same repository is shown?
That can be seen as inconsistent.
Thanks
Michal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-27 17:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ 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 [this message]
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
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
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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