Scribbles for my memory

Need to work on two branches simultaneously without stashing or cloning? git worktree creates a separate working directory that shares the same .git — no duplicate objects, no wasted space.

git worktree add <path> <branch>

For example, to checkout feature/login into a sibling directory:

git worktree add ../my-feature feature/login

This creates ../my-feature with the branch checked out and ready to work. Commits, branches, and remotes are shared — it's one repository, multiple workspaces.

Day-to-day operations:

• git worktree list — see all linked worktrees
• git worktree remove <path> — clean up when done

One restriction: the same branch cannot be checked out in two worktrees at once. Git enforces this to prevent conflicting writes to the ref.