So this is kind of embarrassing to admit but I was spending a stupid amount of time just... switching branches. I'd be deep in a conversation with Claude on a feature branch, need to check something on main, and the whole thing would fall apart. Stash, checkout, reopen Claude, try to remember where I was. Repeat 10 times a day.

I kept telling myself I'd just be more disciplined about it. I was not more disciplined about it.

Eventually I just sat down and built it with Claude git worktrees, Zellij, LazyGit all wired into a single command called `grove`. Described what I wanted, iterated on the bash until it worked. The whole thing is like 300 lines and took an afternoon.

You run it inside any repo and it spins up a Zellij session where every worktree is its own color-coded tab, each one already has Claude Code open and pointed at the right directory.

It's not fancy. But I use it every single day and it fixed the thing that was annoying me.

Throwing it out there in case anyone else has the same problem. Would genuinely love to know if this is useful to anyone else or if I'm just weird about how I work.

[**https://github.com/thisguymartin/grove**](https://github.com/thisguymartin/grove)



grove - git worktrees + Zellij + Claude Code in one command