Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)

The usage of worktrees is seeing a big comeback in the era of AI assisted coding.

I have a script that takes Github issues and spins them out into their own worktrees with corresponding stack.

I can then run individual instances of Claude Code in each and easily flip between them.

Same. Never used worktrees before, but mapping a worktrees to tickets I’m assigned to for Claude to work on is really great.

Heck with the ai, I even have it spin up a dev and test db for that worktree in a docker container. Each has their own so they don’t conflict on that front either. And I won’t lie, I didn’t write those scripts. The models did it all and can make adjustments when I find different work patterns that I like.

This is all to the point of me wondering why I never did this for myself in the past. With the number of times I’m doing multiple parts of a codebase and the annoyance of committing, stashing, checking out different branch and not being able to go more quickly between when blockers are resolved.

What comeback? It’s been there for years and people who have use for them use them (or use git-clone(1) if they are not aware of them). It didn’t fall out of use at any point.

"Comeback" is probably the wrong word, maybe "uptick" in usage?

Worktrees just fit particularly well for the scenario of developing multiple different features in parallel on the same codebase, which is a pattern that devs doing a lot of AI assisted development have.