The majority of you know about git is likely push / pull / rebase. There is a ton more, but today I wanted to focus on one of the most underrated git features out there.

Git worktrees

So what is a work tree?

There are a lot of ways in which work trees are used, but I am going to show you how I work with them. Now you may want to read up on the other strategies if this is going to be something you use.

First, checking out maybe a bit different than you are use to. You are going to use the --bare option when checking out.

git clone --bare git@github.com:ThePrimeagen/refactoring.nvim.git refactoring.nvim

Notice that I did name my checkout. When using --bare I notice that it always includes the .git in the folder name.

So what do we have available?

git worktree list

Lets check out the man page

man git-worktree

The first paragraph gives you the information you need to know, but a way I streamline getting the exact commands to run is using cht.sh

curl cht.sh/git~worktree

Let's go over some use cases to showcase the differences.

• check out branch
• list branches
• edit branch
• check out another branch
• make changes
• stashing
• rebasing

• Pros and cons

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