On Tue, Sep 29, 2020 at 1:31 PM Gabriel Nützi <gnuetzi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > When you do move the .git folder somewhere else: > > git init Test && cd Test && mv .git .git-b > git --git-dir=.git-b --work-tree . worktree list > > the output is : > ..../Test/.git-b 0000000 [master] > > Why is the output a .git Dir and not a worktree. I expected `.../Test`. Because the implementation doesn't really look for or know where the main worktree is. Instead, it's taking the path of the repository and stripping off "/.git" if present, and reporting that as the main worktree. Under normal circumstances this works just fine because either (a) the repository _is_ the .git directory within the main worktree, or (b) it's a bare repository and there is no main worktree, thus it reports the repository path instead of the non-existent main worktree. I suppose one way to fix this would be to specially check if --work-tree or GIT_WORK_TREE is specified and use that value as the path of the main worktree. (This special case would only be used when computing the main worktree path; it would not be used when computing linked worktree paths.)
