Git worktrees, a feature Git has offered since 2015, are gaining renewed attention among developers. According to the GitHub Blog, worktrees let you maintain multiple active branches in the same repository without constant switching and stashing. Rather than juggling context between branches or losing your working state, you can have several feature branches open simultaneously in separate directories. If you're bouncing between parallel work streams or testing across different branches, worktrees cut down the friction.

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