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 <sunsh...@sunshineco.com>
---
 Documentation/git-worktree.txt | 6 +++++-
 builtin/worktree.c             | 5 ++++-
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-worktree.txt b/Documentation/git-worktree.txt
index 552c8e4..96e2142 100644
--- 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
@@ -65,6 +65,10 @@ 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 c9d6462..6967369 100644
--- a/builtin/worktree.c
+++ b/builtin/worktree.c
@@ -126,11 +126,12 @@ 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()
        };
 
@@ -145,6 +146,8 @@ 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));
-- 
2.5.0.rc1.197.g417e668

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