Git worktrees are not an isolation boundary for coding agents

Post by Bnjoroge » Fri, Jul 31, 2026, 2:56 PM UTC

alchaplinsky wrote: post #28

Bnjoroge wrote: post #26

Why a clone over a worktree? The obvious disadvantage I can see is you dont share your git objects with a clone and for really large repos that becomes an issue

Well, actually `git clone --shared` writes an alternates file pointing at your object store and copies zero objects.