worktrunk

Git worktrees let you check out several branches at once, each in its own folder. That helps when you run several AI coding agents, such as Claude Code or Codex, because they can't overwrite each other's changes. The plain git commands are clumsy, though. Starting a new worktree means typing the branch name several times and then changing directory by hand.

Worktrunk addresses worktrees by branch name and works out the folder path from a configurable template. wt switch -c feat creates a branch and worktree and moves you into it. wt list shows every worktree with its status. wt merge squashes, rebases, merges and cleans up. wt remove deletes the worktree and branch. Shell integration is what lets these commands change your directory.

The README compares it only with plain git. On top of that it adds hooks that run on create or merge, optional LLM-written commit messages, an interactive picker, and shared build caches such as target/ and node_modules/ on filesystems that support copy-on-write (APFS, btrfs, XFS).