Using Git Worktree with Terraform

12 Feb, 2025

I've been test driving Git worktrees in a terraform project and it's been rather slick.

This is the folder structure I'm using

projects/
└── infrastructure/
    ├── main
    ├── feature-branch-1
    └── feature-branch-2

In my projects directory I have an infrastructure folder which is the same name as the repo.

From inside projects/infrastructure I git clone the default branch into a folder with the same name, normally main.

Then I cd main and run my git worktree add ../feature-branch-1 feature-branch-1. Now I have a new worktree for that branch which I normally open in a new tmux window.

One annoyance is needing to copy over any hidden files between worktrees. A simple solution is to have a mise task to do that and pull the files from a specific worktree.

All in all, it's been a big productivity booster.

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