worktree: add --detach option

One of git-worktree's roles is to populate the new worktree, much like
git-checkout, and thus, for convenience, ought to support several of the
same shortcuts. Toward this goal, add a --detach option to detach HEAD
in the new worktree.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
index 8891de040fb3a8f745cad05d83d124bbcda22021..231271b2f87a133290956337c9f41ac55657562a 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-worktree - Manage multiple worktrees
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
 [verse]
-'git worktree add' [-f] <path> <branch>
+'git worktree add' [-f] [--detach] <path> <branch>
 'git worktree prune' [-n] [-v] [--expire <expire>]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -64,6 +64,10 @@ OPTIONS
        is already checked out by another worktree. This option overrides
        that safeguard.
 
+--detach::
+       With `add`, detach HEAD in the new worktree. See "DETACHED HEAD" in
+       linkgit:git-checkout[1].
+
 -n::
 --dry-run::
        With `prune`, do not remove anything; just report what it would

diff --git a/builtin/worktree.c b/builtin/worktree.c
index 8c35023a46c5aa010ef307c81a1567561ef0a567..9dc92b07af53997c59258b172621dd1afc262008 100644 (file)
--- a/builtin/worktree.c
+++ b/builtin/worktree.c
@@ -125,11 +125,12 @@ static int prune(int ac, const char **av, const char *prefix)
 static int add(int ac, const char **av, const char *prefix)
 {
        struct child_process c;
-       int force = 0;
+       int force = 0, detach = 0;
        const char *path, *branch;
        struct argv_array cmd = ARGV_ARRAY_INIT;
        struct option options[] = {
                OPT__FORCE(&force, N_("checkout <branch> even if already checked out in other worktree")),
+               OPT_BOOL(0, "detach", &detach, N_("detach HEAD at named commit")),
                OPT_END()
        };
 
@@ -144,6 +145,8 @@ static int add(int ac, const char **av, const char *prefix)
        argv_array_pushl(&cmd, "--to", path, NULL);
        if (force)
                argv_array_push(&cmd, "--ignore-other-worktrees");
+       if (detach)
+               argv_array_push(&cmd, "--detach");
        argv_array_push(&cmd, branch);
 
        memset(&c, 0, sizeof(c));