I couldn't figure out this part of GitButler. I downloaded it and tried it (since I respect Scott Chacon and remember learning so much about Git from his well-written git guides).

But it was just a bit too much cognitive dissonance for me to try it.

It seems like the next big thing is parallel coding... I've tried GitButler, Spectator, Vibe-Kanban, and Conductor in the past week. And there is now FleetCode.

I liked Spectator's idea (use a separate docker container for each) but it didn't quite work right. So back to worktrees which seem to work just fine.

At some point, we will probably consolidate on 2-3 dominant tools in this space.

I wonder if even work trees will be needed if we can do a "create a copy-on-write version of my code folder" which would result in nearly zero-cost copies of the repo.