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.
