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Roberto Tonino
Roberto Tonino

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How to work in multiple branches of the same repo at the same time

#git #productivity

You can use Git worktrees 🌲 to achieve so. Just cd in a git repo and run

git worktree add <filesystem-location> <branch>
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and git will create a new folder in the path <filesystem-location> and checkout the branch <branch> in that folder.

For instance:

git worktree add ../app-4.2.0 production-4.2.0
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Now you can manage 2 copies of the same repo at the same time 💏🏽

Full reference: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree

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