Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-worktree: use working tree for trees on the file system

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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Stefan Beller <sbeller@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> While it may be true that you can have bare worktrees; I would question
>> why anyone wants to do this, as the only thing it provides is an
>> additional HEAD (plus its reflog).
>
> A more plausible situation is you start with a bare one as the
> primary and used to make local clones to do your work in the world
> before "git worktree".  It would be a natural extension to your
> workflow to instead create worktrees of of that bare one as the
> primary worktree with secondaries with working trees.

For what it's worth, this conversation makes me think it was a mistake
to call this construct a worktree.

It's fine for the command to have one name and the documentation to
use a longer, clearer name to explain it.  What should that longer,
clearer name be?

Thanks,
Jonathan



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