On Jan 13 2020, Jason Merrill wrote: > On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 10:29 AM Nathan Sidwell <nat...@acm.org> wrote: > >> If I drop 'master' from the command I get: >> >git worktree add ../../error/src >> Preparing ../../error/src (identifier src1) >> >> * what does 'identifier src1' mean, and what did that do? >> > > It created a branch src1 based on your current HEAD for the new worktree to > track.
Actually, Nathan is using a older version of git where this isn't true, I think git worktree add used to just create a detached head here. If you used a current version, it would have said "(new branch 'src')" (not 'src1'), with the branch named after the basename of the worktree directory. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, sch...@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 7578 EB47 D4E5 4D69 2510 2552 DF73 E780 A9DA AEC1 "And now for something completely different."
