Barret Rennie <barret@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> For example, the "frotz" and "nitfol" repositories (i.e. where their
>> worktrees borrow their refs and object stores from) could have a
>> single configuration variable each, i.e.
>>
>> (in $HOME/xyzzy/frotz/.git/config)
>> [worktree] location = "~/*/frotz"
>>
>> (in $HOME/xyzzy/libs/nitfol/.git/config)
>> [worktree] location = "~/*/libs/nitfol"
>>
>> and then the user could do in each of these two repositories
>>
>> $ git -C ~/xyzzy/frotz worktree add --by-name xyzzy-1 topic-1
>> $ git -C ~/xyzzy/lib/nitfol worktree add --by-name xyzzy-1 topic-1
>>
>> to get the desired layout instead.
>>
>> The traditional way may be "create one HERE", and your patch tries
>> to tweak it to "create one at HERE with this NAME". The above
>> attempts to remove the need for specifying the exact location every
>> time a new worktree is created, and instead let you specify the
>> systematic way in which you lay out your worktrees based on their
>> names.
>
> Are you proposing that `--by-name` creates a worktree in the current working
> directory or that the default behaviour of `git worktree add` is changed to
> to create the worktree in the current working directory when executed with
> only one argument (the branch)?
It is not a proposal but an illustration of what I meant by "hint".
What I am envisioning is that we may enhance the "worktree add"
subcommand to take two forms. In addition to traditional
$ git worktree add [opts] <path> [<branch>]
when worktree.location configuration is present, you could say
$ git worktree add [opts] --by-name <name> [<branch>]
omitting <path> and instead giving <name>. Use the <name> to
substitute the wildcard in the pattern given by worktree.location,
i.e. with the above example for "frotz",
$ git worktree add --by-name xyzzy-1 topic-1
because the worktree.location configuration is set to "~/*/frotz",
that would act as if <path> was given as ~/xyzzy-1/frotz. Name is
set to xyzzy-1, and the newly created worktree would initially check
out topic-1 branch.
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