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The mental overhead of switching around, reloading files, reinstalling node_modules based on whatever changed
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Now, this is a basic example, but sometimes developers would work around this kind of chaos with doing some more complicated git stash commands, or even multiple clones of the same repo (the reporter is guilty of that one).
Key facts
- It seems like the latest hotness in git these days is the concept of worktrees
- Then after merging a pull request, you might return back to your computer and pull main and remove the bug branch
- And then you could go back to the feature you were working
- The mental overhead of switching around, reloading files, reinstalling node_modules based on whatever changed, and so on, is a lot
Summary
It seems like the latest hotness in git these days is the concept of worktrees. 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 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:. Then you’d fix everything, commit, and push the branch:.