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Bessie Yundt
Bessie Yundt

Reputation: 21

How may I develop two features simultaneously with Git branching?

Suppose I wish to work on two features A and B. I created two corresponding branches feature-A and feature-B (in addition to the master development branch). Whenever I make changes in a branch, do I need to commit my changes before checking out to another? If so, is there any workaround for this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 990

Answers (1)

larsks
larsks

Reputation: 311635

You could look into git worktrees. This lets you check out multiple branches at the same time in different directories. Let's say you start with two different branches:

git branch featureA
git branch featureB

You can check these out in their own directories like this:

git worktree add work-on-featureA featureA
git worktree add work-on-featureB featureB

Now you can simply move between the two feature branches by changing directories. Once you no longer need the worktree, remove it with git worktree remove:

git worktree remove work-on-featureA
git worktree remove work-on-featureB

Upvotes: 1

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