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From: Erik Cervin Edin <erik@cervined.in>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Norbert Kiesel <nkiesel@gmail.com>,
	 Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Feature request: support listing worktrees sorted by creation time
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 14:02:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aarKxwOiv0XmoS6c@Eriks-MacBook-Pro.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqqzpy46n5.fsf@gitster.g>

On 26/03/05 07:50AM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 

I think that sounds like a nice addition. I frequently name the worktree
to encode the intent of the worktree, but that can be a bit clunky.
Having a way to describe it and/or metadata sounds nice!

      parent reply	other threads:[~2026-03-06 13:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-05  7:14 Feature request: support listing worktrees sorted by creation time Norbert Kiesel
2026-03-05  7:35 ` Johannes Sixt
2026-03-05  7:41   ` Norbert Kiesel
2026-03-05 15:50 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-03-05 23:36   ` Norbert Kiesel
2026-03-06 13:02   ` Erik Cervin Edin [this message]

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