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Mon, 8 Sep 2025 14:43:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Junio C Hamano To: "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" Cc: "Gabriel Scherer" , "Patrick Steinhardt" , "Matthieu Moy" , git@vger.kernel.org, "Elijah Newren" , "Eric Sunshine" , "Todd Zullinger" Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 10/11] contrib: remove "git-new-workdir" In-Reply-To: <2b3c951b-0400-4cc5-b790-17ff77154ec2@app.fastmail.com> (Kristoffer Haugsbakk's message of "Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:58:48 +0200") References: <20250512-pks-contrib-spring-cleanup-v3-10-32e151b0bfb0@pks.im> <5580aa89-09f1-426e-8483-c99481c998ab@gmail.com> <2b3c951b-0400-4cc5-b790-17ff77154ec2@app.fastmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2025 11:43:23 -0700 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit "Kristoffer Haugsbakk" writes: >> I understand >> why its designers felt that this would provide better guarantees (it >> is not a good idea to mutate branch names that are checked out >> somewhere else), but checking out various branches to test them and >> inspect their code (before returning to the feature branch I am >> actively working on) is a common part of my workflow. > > I agree, that’s a great use of worktrees. But I never feel like I have > to checkout the branch itself. I detach on top of the branch. Yes. For sightseeing, not building on top of various random points in history, detached HEAD is a reasonable way to use multiple worktrees.