What are git worktrees, and why should I use them?

**TL;DR:** What are git worktrees, and why should I use them?

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It seems like the latest hotness in git these days is the concept of worktrees. Which… is kind of funny because they’ve been around since 2015. But, nevertheless, they are cool, and you might be wondering why you’d use them, how they differ from branches, and why they are suddenly so popular. Let’s talk about it! Context switching with branches and stashing Let’s say you lived in a worktree-less world, and were working on a ticket, and suddenly an urgent bug came to you and you had to switch contexts.

First, you might stash your work: git stash "wip feature login" Then you’d switch to your main branch and update: git checkout main git pull origin main Then make a bugfix branch: git checkout -b hotfix-bug Then you’d fix everything, commit, and push the branch: git add .

git commit -m "fix broken submit button" git push origin hotfix-bug Then after merging a pull request, you might return back to your computer and pull main and remove the bug branch: git checkout main git pull origin main git branch -d hotfix-bug And then you could go back to the feature you were working on: git checkout feature-login git stash pop Phew. Where were we? The m

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