Please don't top-post. On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 7:06 PM, Zhang Lei <zhanglei002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Yes, path basename makes sense. > I am asking this question because we have some legacy code requires > that working tree > called something like 'src', as a result, multiple branch would have > src1 src2 src3 under .git/worktrees > which could not be easy to maintain. If you really need to care about these names, I think a new option to let you control the naming explicitly would be better. > I agreed with you, we should give users such option. > > > 2016-03-25 19:41 GMT+08:00 Duy Nguyen <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx>: >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 6:31 PM, Zhang Lei <zhanglei002@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> By the way, Duy, another unrelated question: why worktree name under >>> .git/worktrees is being named >>> after the working tree path basename? I think branch name is more >>> reasonable since we don't allow checking out >>> the same branch twice. >> >> Because branch name is not always available (e.g. detached HEAD) and >> checkout branch can be switched later on. And normally you'll get >> branch name there anyway with "git worktree add something" because the >> branch "something" is automatically created. I've been wondering if >> it's worth supporting "git worktree -b abc ./" where we create >> worktree "./abc" based on branch name too. >> -- >> Duy -- Duy -- 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