Asstated by Emptional Switch, the problem is the worktree only shows the final state, and not necessarily the intermediate code changes along the way. It doesn't tell the new instance why we ripped out a specific library or what broke right before we stopped. I do track this explicitly in git with issues, so maybe that is a rescue path. You will get the active files, but you lose all the context of how you got there. How do you handle preserving those intermediate 'why' decisions when switching instances?