# Apple Browsers: Git worktrees

Keep one shared Git database at `~/DuckDuckGo/apple-browsers.git/.git` and put independent checkouts beside it inside `apple-browsers.git/`. The container directory has no checked-out source of its own.

## First-time setup

```sh
mkdir -p ~/DuckDuckGo/apple-browsers.git
git clone --bare https://github.com/duckduckgo/apple-browsers.git ~/DuckDuckGo/apple-browsers.git/.git
cd ~/DuckDuckGo/apple-browsers.git
git config remote.origin.fetch '+refs/heads/*:refs/remotes/origin/*'
git fetch origin
git worktree add main main
```

This matches the local layout: `.git/` holds shared history; `main/` is a normal checkout. Access to private dependencies may be needed to build; see `README.md` inside a checkout.

## Work on a branch

From `~/DuckDuckGo/apple-browsers.git`:

```sh
git fetch origin
git worktree add -b yourname/my-feature my-feature origin/main
cd my-feature
git submodule update --init --recursive
open DuckDuckGo.xcworkspace
```

Edit, build, commit, and push **inside `my-feature/`** as with any clone. Each worktree has its own working files and branch; they share the same Git history. For an existing local branch, use `git worktree add <folder> <branch>`; for a remote branch, use `git worktree add --track -b <branch> <folder> origin/<branch>` if you have not created it locally.

Use `git worktree list` to find checkouts. After checking that a checkout has no work to keep, run `git worktree remove <folder>` from the container directory. The branch remains available.