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Git worktree

Every article on Git worktree published on this blog, newest first: 3 in total, written by Ramón Chancay.

3 articles on Git worktree

Illustration of a project folder and three identical copies, each with its own change, all resting on the same shared base

AI28 Oct 202624 min read

What is a git worktree: how it works and when to use one

What a git worktree is, explained in depth: what git writes to disk, what it shares with the repository, its commands, its limits and when to use one.

Illustration of an agent fleet: a prompt fans out to several agents in parallel, each in its own worktree

AI6 Jul 202616 min read

Orca: the ADE for orchestrating a fleet of coding agents in parallel

I tried Orca, the open-source Agent Development Environment, to run a fleet of parallel coding agents: Claude Code, Codex and more, each in its own worktree.

Illustration of an isolated agent: a separate working copy branches off the repository on its own branch, the loop works inside it, and the output is a pull request, not a merge

AI30 Jun 202619 min read

The agent inside a real repo: isolating tasks with git worktree and shipping a PR

How to put an agent loop to work on a real repo: isolate each task with git worktree, reproduce the bug with a test, run the suite and ship a PR, not a merge.