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Modern Git Commands and Features You Should Be Using
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Why using a worktree? I will simply commit my WIP modifications on the dev branch.
Switch branch to work on the bugfix. And when Im finished I move back to the development branch? Why is this worse than doing this worktree stuff?
Recently I had to do an update to the underlying environment a codebase ran on. This was a somewhat involved upgrade and took a longer period of time than most of our work usually does. I did it in a separate worktree, so I didn't have to constantly rejuggle the installed dependencies in the project, and could work on two features relatively concurrently
It also provides some utility for comparing the two versions. Nothing you couldn't do other ways, but still useful