Hi Mikael, On Fri, 11 Mar 2016, Mikael Magnusson wrote: > On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 2:21 PM, Johannes Schindelin > <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Duy, > > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2016, Duy Nguyen wrote: > > > >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Johannes Schindelin > >> <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote: > >> > One possible improvement would be to add "/xyz/" to the parent > >> > repository's .git/info/exclude, but this developer hesitates to > >> > introduce that feature without the "delete" counterpart: those exclude > >> > entries would likely go stale very quickly. Besides, there might be a > >> > plan in the working to exclude worktrees automagically? > >> > >> That's needed because you add a worktree inside another worktree? I > >> know that feeling, but I've changed my layout from ~/w/git as main > >> worktree (and ~/w/git/.git as repo) to ~/w/git as a non-worktree dir > >> that contains all worktrees, e.g. ~/w/git/reinclude-dir, > >> ~/w/git/worktree-config, ~/w/git/lmdb... My typical worktree add > >> command is "git worktree add ../<some-name>" then move there and do > >> stuff. No nested worktrees, no need to update exclude file (and no > >> messing up emacs' rgrep command, which does not understand .gitignore > >> anyway) > > > > This feels to me like it is working around the problem rather than solving > > it. My worktrees are inside the corresponding top-level project for a > > reason: I work with multiple projects, and having all of their worktrees > > in a single $HOME/w/ directory would be rather confusing to me. > > > > I really want to keep my Git worktrees inside /usr/src/git/ (in Git for > > Windows' SDK). > > You can have /usr/src/git/master, /usr/src/git/some-work-tree, etc, > and /usr/src/git itself is not a git repository at all. That way > /usr/src only has one git-related directory and no worktrees are > nested. The only downside is if you work in master most of the time, > you have to type "/master" more. I think this is what Duy suggested > too, but you interpreted it as having /usr/src/git-master, > /usr/src/git-some-work-tree etc? That is a sensible workaround. The question is: why do I need a workaround? Ciao, Dscho -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html