Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Currently 'git worktree add' produces output like the following: > > Preparing ../foo (identifier foo) > HEAD is now at 26da330922 <title> > > The '../foo' is the path where the worktree is created, which the user > has just given on the command line. The identifier is an internal > implementation detail, which is not particularly relevant for the user > and indeed isn't mentioned explicitly anywhere in the man page. OK. Maybe there once was a place or two that took the identifier as an input to name a specific worktree to work on (perhaps "prune"?), but if we no longer do that (which makes sense, as we should be able to uniquely identify a worktree by the path to it), then it makes perfect sense to prevent it from appearing in the UI. > Instead of this message, print a message that gives the user a bit more > detail of what exactly 'git worktree' is doing. There are various dwim > modes which are perform some magic under the hood, which should be s/are perform/perform/, I think (no need to reroll, only to fix this). > Additionally currently the "Preparing ..." line is printed to stderr, > while the "HEAD is now at ..." line is printed to stdout by 'git reset > --hard', which is used internally by 'git worktree add'. Fix this > inconsistency by printing the "Preparing ..." message to stdout as > well. As "Preparing ..." is not an error, stdout also seems like the > more appropriate output stream. I think it is a bug for reset to give this kind of informational message to the standard output stream. A rule of thumb I use is "is this something that a user who wants quiet operation would wish to squelch with --quiet option?" and if the answer is yes, it should go to the standard error output, so info and progress should go to the standard output in general. But I am OK to unify to the standard output with this patch. We may want to come back and correct _both_ this new message and what reset says, but that is outside the scope of this topic. Thanks.
