My understanding is that the timestamp of the base worktree
directories is updated whenever a new file is created in that
directory, and thus this will not preserve the worktree creation time.
Therefore, I would like to have an explicit creation timestamp in the
worktree metadata.


On Wed, Mar 4, 2026 at 11:35 PM Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] wrote:

Am 05.03.26 um 08:14 schrieb Norbert Kiesel:

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I have multiple repos with more than 20 worktrees, and sometimes
forget the name of a recently added worktree. Therefore it would
really be nice if I could use something like ‘git worktree list
—created’ to list them by their creation timestamp. Is that something
that makes sense to you as well? I could also create a pull request
for this if you would like it.

I don't think this is warranted as a feature for a special-purpose
use-case. Assuming you don't have spaces in your worktree directory names,

  git worktree list | cut -d' ' -f1 | xargs ls -ldtr

lists the worktree directories by modification time. The last is the one
that was modified most recently. That should help your memory.

-- Hannes