On Mon, Apr 9, 2018 at 3:44 PM, Thomas Gummerer <t.gumme...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 04/08, Eric Sunshine wrote: >> This is making me wonder if "Checking out branch" is perhaps the wrong >> terminology. What if it said something like this instead: >> >> $ git worktree add ../next >> Preparing worktree (branch 'next' <= 'origin/next') >> fatal: '../next' already exists >> >> This way, we don't need the special case added by this "fixup!" patch. >> (I'm not wedded to the "Preparing" message but just used it as an >> example; better suggestions welcome.) > > Yeah, I think this looks like another improvement of what I currently > have. I'm not sure about the "(branch 'next' <= 'origin/next')" > message though, as it doesn't cover all the ways the branch could be > set up for tracking the remote branch, e.g. tracking by rebasing, when > 'branch.autosetuprebase' is set up. > > But how about just "Preparing worktree (new branch 'next')", and then > keeping the message from 'git branch' about setting up the remote > tracking branch?
Fair enough. Extra annotation (such as "'foo' <= 'bar'" or whatever) can always be added later if someone wants it.
