Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)

I found worktrees unnecessarily painful in Git with little advantage over just having two copies of the repo.

Your far better off just having a clone of your primary repo, and have your primary repo as a local remote. Both can have a remote for GitHub and a separate remote for each other.

I use work trees so my prototype can be open while I build my final code, but I never thought of local remotes! That'll be so much easier!

It's very useful when your repos are a significant fraction of disk space.

Genuinely curious, what did you find painful about it? A while back I found it annoying that I'd get errors when cleaning out my branches because they were checked out in a worktree I'd forgotten about, but git now highlights branches checked out in worktrees and has done so for a while.

Given that hard drives are in the terabytes range, which repos are you checking out in the 250+ GB ranges?

How many git users have this problem, really?

It was the primary repo at my job at the time. Decades of history, migrated from SVN. Probably some ill-advised large binary blobs committed at one point or another.

Surely it's a tiny fraction of git repos, if not users. But if it's a problem you have, worktrees are very useful.