Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> % git -C bar.git worktree add --orphan main main/ > > It's perhaps a bit late to bring this up but I've only just realized > that it is unfortunate that --orphan takes a branch name rather than > working in conjunction with -b/-B. It means that in the common case > where the branch name is the same as the worktree the user has to > repeat it on the command line as shown above. It also means there is > no way to force an orphan branch (that's admittedly quite niche). If > instead --orphan did not take an argument we could have > > git worktree add --orphan main > git worktree add --orphan -b topic main > git worktree add --orphan -B topic main Good point. I am not sure if it is too late, though. Thanks.
