Git-workty
I got tired of Git stash and built a worktree wrapper
Details
- External ID
- 46509043
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Git-workty
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- Jan. 6, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.3544137022397892
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I context-switch a lot. Someone pings me about a bug while I'm mid-feature, and I either:1. `git stash` (and forget what's in there forever)2. Make a "WIP: stuff" commit (clutters history)3. Ignore them until I'm done (not great)Worktrees solve this perfectly – each task gets its own directory, fully isolated. But the commands are clunky and I kept forgetting the syntax.So I built a small CLI wrapper. Now my workflow is:```wnew feat/login # creates worktree + cd into it# ...do work...wcd # fuzzy-pick another worktree, cd therewgo main # jump straight to main```Dashboard shows everything at a glance:```▶ feat/login ● 3 ↑2↓0 ~/.workty/repo/feat-login main ↑0↓0 ~/src/repo ```Written in Rust, ~2k lines. Refuses to delete dirty worktrees unless you force it.https://github.com/binbandit/worktyCurious if anyone else has this problem or solved it differently.
Enrichment
- Theme
- self-hosted infrastructure and security tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- git worktree wrapper
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a straightforward CLI wrapper around `git worktree` commands to simplify directory creation and branch switching.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #149 of 230 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 66 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Git Navigator · hn · 2026-02-15 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- gwt-zsh · hn · 2026-02-18 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Wtdb · hn · 2026-06-14 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- I built a tool to manage work and personal Git repos · hn · 2026-03-07 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Git-stage-batch · hn · 2026-04-17 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- GWZ · hn · 2026-07-15 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Agentastic.dev is Ghostty and Git worktrees = multi-agent CC/Codex IDE · hn · 2026-01-05 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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