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From: Ben Knoble <ben.knoble@gmail.com>
To: "Michal Suchánek" <msuchanek@suse.de>
Cc: Jason Cho <jason11choca@proton.me>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Jakub T. Jankiewicz" <jcubic@jcubic.pl>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: What is the reason behind not hiding git worktrees from git?
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2025 08:16:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E311F5BA-F88C-4C3D-88B5-F8508B106D41@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aNuy1aab954D3rJ1@kitsune.suse.cz>


> Le 30 sept. 2025 à 06:41, Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de> a écrit :
> 
> On Sat, Sep 27, 2025 at 09:08:44PM +0000, Jason Cho wrote:
>>> It does not not show its own .git directory as untracked files
>>> 
>>> That can be seen as inconsistent.
>> 
>> Well, I see your point. Since the .git directory is from a git repo, the directory is ignored by git. Therefore, you want git to also ignore other items derived from the repo, including work trees.
>> 
>> However, this is a minor improvement and I suspect your proposed feature may have an unknown impact.
> 
> The impact is that the list of worktrees would have to be read to get
> status. As status is not particularly cheap operation in any case I
> would expect the problem to be minor.

I believe status information is used for the shell prompt info, so performance hits there have a cost.

  reply	other threads:[~2025-10-01 12:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-09-27 13:28 What is the reason behind not hiding git worktrees from git? Jakub T. Jankiewicz
2025-09-27 16:52 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-09-27 17:55   ` Michal Suchánek
2025-09-27 21:08     ` Jason Cho
2025-09-27 21:26       ` Jason Cho
2025-09-30 10:30         ` Michal Suchánek
2025-09-30 15:47           ` Junio C Hamano
2025-11-19  8:13             ` Michal Suchánek
2025-09-30 10:37       ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-01 12:16         ` Ben Knoble [this message]
2025-10-01 18:54           ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-01 20:22             ` Sergey Organov
2025-10-01 20:48               ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-01 21:27                 ` Jakub T. Jankiewicz
2025-10-01 22:07                   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-01 21:29                 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-10-01 22:27                   ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02  8:38                     ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-02 13:33                       ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02 15:51                         ` [PATCH 1/2] doc: git-worktree: Link to examples Michal Suchanek
2025-10-02 17:42                           ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-10-02 17:44                           ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02 18:55                             ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-05 20:52                           ` Jean-Noël AVILA
2025-10-10 17:10                             ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-10 17:04                           ` [PATCH v2 " Michal Suchanek
2025-10-11  4:40                             ` Eric Sunshine
2025-10-10 17:04                           ` [PATCH v2 2/2] doc: git-worktree: Add side by side branch checkout example Michal Suchanek
2025-10-11  5:17                             ` Eric Sunshine
2025-10-23 19:40                               ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-24 10:15                               ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-24 16:57                                 ` Eric Sunshine
2025-11-18 12:01                                   ` Michal Suchánek
2025-11-19  7:19                                     ` Eric Sunshine
2025-10-02 15:51                         ` [PATCH " Michal Suchanek
2025-10-02 17:51                           ` Kristoffer Haugsbakk
2025-10-02 18:46                             ` Michal Suchánek
2025-10-02 18:47                             ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02 18:06                           ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02 18:39                             ` Michal Suchánek
2025-11-17 22:36                   ` What is the reason behind not hiding git worktrees from git? Johannes Schindelin
2025-11-17 22:57                     ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-02  2:33             ` Ben Knoble

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