#worktrees

GitHub Desktop 3.6 moves three agent-era Git chores into the client: worktrees, Copilot-written commits, and AI-assisted merge conflict review. The bigger shift is that Desktop now treats parallel branches and model choice as everyday developer controls.

Hacker News liked that Zed did more than add extra agents to a sidebar. The thread focused on worktree isolation, repo scoping, and whether Zed found a more usable shape for multi-agent coding than the usual terminal pile-up. By crawl time on April 25, 2026, the post had 278 points and 160 comments.