[palunon]

Make an external worktree. No need to re-clone the whole repo, nor stashing/commiting your work, switching branch, doing the merge, etc (which you may know how to do, but is a pain if you often need to do so)

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-worktree

[weaksauce]

That's a neat command... it's also relatively new to git. I hadn't heard about it before... thanks!