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The plumbing under the porcelain — what git actually stores, the rules that only announce themselves when you break them, and how the model changes once more than one worker shares a repository.
Switching branches is a destructive operation on your files. git worktree removes that coupling — here is the model underneath, the plumbing that makes it cheap, and the three rules Git only mentions when you break them.
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I gave three agents a worktree each and watched what landed on disk — the pid inside the lock file, the worktree that erased itself completely, and the shared site-packages that no amount of git isolation was ever going to protect.