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Worktrees: Git's best kept secret (and why you should use them)
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this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2025
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Glad it's there for people who need it. I've been fine with branching and stashing for 10+ years and my working directories have never been so dirty that I needed an entirely new copy of the project to do a hotfix.