From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation/git-worktree: use working tree for trees on the file system
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:37:08 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CACsJy8CBmfj8wY+LQzEshJT0Ya+nmAGs=K8b1Nyr3qinvCo4kA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170320185038.GU26789@aiede.mtv.corp.google.com>
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 1:50 AM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> 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.
For the record, I am totally confused with Junio's last line, with two
"with"s, "worktree" and "working trees" in the same phrase :D
> 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?
No comments from me. I'll let you know that if Eric (or Junio?) didn't
stop me, we would have had $GIT_DIR/repos now instead of
$GIT_DIR/worktrees, just some extra confusion toppings.
--
Duy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-03-21 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-30 20:44 [PATCH 0/4] git-prompt.sh: Full patch for submodule indicator Benjamin Fuchs
2017-01-30 20:44 ` [PATCH 1/4] git-prompt.sh: add " Benjamin Fuchs
2017-01-30 23:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-31 0:10 ` Benjamin Fuchs
2017-01-31 3:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-06 4:23 ` Stefan Beller
2017-02-06 5:55 ` Jacob Keller
2017-02-06 10:13 ` Stefan Beller
2017-01-30 20:44 ` [PATCH 2/4] git-prompt.sh: rework of " Benjamin Fuchs
2017-01-31 18:06 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-01-30 20:44 ` [PATCH 3/4] git-prompt.sh: fix for submodule 'dirty' indicator Benjamin Fuchs
2017-01-30 20:44 ` [PATCH 4/4] git-prompt.sh: add tests for submodule indicator Benjamin Fuchs
2017-01-31 18:32 ` SZEDER Gábor
2017-01-31 22:06 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-31 22:12 ` Stefan Beller
2017-03-07 3:45 ` [RFC PATCH] rev-parse: add --show-superproject-working-tree Stefan Beller
2017-03-07 5:13 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-07 7:16 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-07 7:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-07 18:44 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-07 20:40 ` Stefan Beller
2017-03-07 22:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-08 0:56 ` [PATCHv2] " Stefan Beller
2017-03-08 1:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-08 6:01 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-08 19:20 ` [PATCHv3] " Stefan Beller
2017-03-08 22:28 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-08 23:07 ` [PATCHv4] " Stefan Beller
2017-03-08 23:51 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-17 22:28 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-03-17 22:51 ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-worktree: use working tree for trees on the file system Stefan Beller
2017-03-17 22:55 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-03-17 23:04 ` Stefan Beller
2017-03-18 17:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-18 1:47 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-18 1:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-20 17:29 ` Stefan Beller
2017-03-20 18:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-20 18:50 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-03-20 19:22 ` [PATCH 0/2] use "working trees" instead of "worktree" in our API Stefan Beller
2017-03-20 19:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] git.c: introduce --working-tree superseding --work-tree Stefan Beller
2017-03-20 19:58 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-03-20 19:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] revparse: introduce --is-inside-working-tree Stefan Beller
2017-03-20 20:00 ` Jonathan Nieder
2017-03-20 19:37 ` [PATCH 0/2] use "working trees" instead of "worktree" in our API Junio C Hamano
2017-03-21 10:37 ` Duy Nguyen [this message]
2017-03-21 15:48 ` [PATCH] Documentation/git-worktree: use working tree for trees on the file system Junio C Hamano
2017-03-23 17:06 ` Michael J Gruber
2017-03-23 17:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-03-25 12:07 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-04-07 13:59 ` Michael J Gruber
2017-04-07 16:14 ` Jacob Keller
2017-03-25 12:05 ` Duy Nguyen
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