New week, new challenge! Who hasn’t needed to test two features offered by two different branches, at almost the same time? Aside from cloning the project in question twice, running tests, and making any corrections that you’ll inevitably forget to upload to the server or that will lead to confusion between branches… In short, avoid! And why all this? Because by default, Git only offers a single workspace, regardless of the number of branches in the repository. This makes things quite flexible, but in our case, it’s enough to make you tear out a few hairs.

And then you come across a command hidden in a corner of the official documentation: git worktree! And it’s a revelation!

Create a new workspace

Let’s take the example of a simple project with the following branches: