From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk, Jasper Mayone <me@jaspermayone.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org, haraldnordgren@gmail.com,
ben.knoble@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] worktree list: add --branch to select worktrees by branch
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2026 08:27:02 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqik2ldewp.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cT6rxKptqSEKuVbi2FafBqh+DfcHAkHfz2-=SH3y2hfyw@mail.gmail.com> (Eric Sunshine's message of "Wed, 28 Oct 2026 02:02:55 -0400")
Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:
> If so, that potentially raises the question about how such filter
> options should combine. It's obvious that multiple
> `--filter=branch:<name>` options combine via logical "OR", but a user
> might want to combine future filter criteria via other logical
> operations (AND, NOT, grouping). Do other Git commands set precedent
> regarding filter option naming and logical operations?
>
> Note that I'm not suggesting that this patch should implement such
> additional filtering behavior (it should not), or even that all these
> questions need to be answered right now. I'm asking only, taking the
> above into consideration, whether this option should be given a more
> generic name to avoid closing the door to those possible future
> enhancements.
Perhaps, but at that point I suspect that the most general form is
to allow you to write a callback function that is given the path to
the worktree and determines if you want the worktree to be included
in the result. Then
git worktree list --filter-command='
test 5 -lt $(git rev-list --count master..HEAD)
'
may become a way to list worktrees with work that has more than 5
commits to be massaged down to 'master', for example.
"git branch --contains" etc. can be expressed inside the framework,
so "--branch" may become a special case for that more generalized
mechanism.
I dunno.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-28 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-21 17:33 [RFC PATCH 0/1] worktree list: add --merged and --no-merged Jasper Mayone
2026-10-21 17:33 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] " Jasper Mayone
2026-10-23 18:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-24 6:25 ` Eric Sunshine
2026-10-24 16:53 ` [PATCH v2] worktree list: add --branch to select worktrees by branch Jasper Mayone
2026-10-25 14:47 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-26 11:02 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-28 6:02 ` Eric Sunshine
2026-10-28 15:27 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2026-10-28 11:32 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2026-10-29 4:46 ` Jasper Mayone
2026-10-29 5:01 ` Eric Sunshine
2026-10-29 11:14 ` Phillip Wood
2026-10-29 14:23 ` Ben Knoble
2026-10-21 21:36 ` [RFC PATCH 0/1] worktree list: add --merged and --no-merged Harald Nordgren
2026-10-21 22:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2026-10-22 7:21 ` Harald Nordgren
2026-10-22 17:58 ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
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