On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 8:04 PM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxx> writes: > >> Adds a --name option allowing to specify the name of a worktree when >> creating it. This allows to have multiple worktrees in directories >> having the same name (e.g. project0/foo, project1/foo etc...). This >> commit keeps the previous behaviour by making it the default value, i.e. >> by using $(basename <path>) as the worktree name when the --name option >> isn't used. >> >> Two new test cases are added to ensure the --name option does not break >> other functionalities and is working properly. >> >> Finally, the documentation is updated to reflect this --name option >> addition. >> >> Signed-off-by: Antoine Tenart <antoine.tenart@xxxxxx> >> --- > > Hmm, is this related to an earlier discussion > > https://public-inbox.org/git/20160625051548.95564-1-barret%40brennie.ca/ > > in any way, or is it an independent invention? > > The conclusion of that discussion thread was roughly "users > shouldn't even _care_ about the name, and if they have to use name > to identify the worktrees to do certain things right now, reducing > the need for such 'certain things', not making it easy to give a > user-defined name to a worktree, is the way to go", IIRC. 080739b (worktree.c: find_worktree() search by path suffix - 2016-06-13) from 'next' should help identify worktrees in this case by specifying 'project0/foo', 'project1/foo'... Granted it's not fun to type all that when 'project0/foo' is something long, and bash completion probably does not help much either. Note that we may need a unique name elsewhere too, e.g. refs/worktrees/xyz (even though we haven't settled on this yet). Then xyz would be more exposed to the user and an easily recognizable name would be a good thing. -- 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