Lead · Practice
One fewer step of "look up the number, then manually assemble the format" sounds small, but if you're opening several worktrees a day for different MRs, that's a repetitive annoyance you no longer have to deal with.
Derek Finch
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September 02, 2026
Claude Code version 2.1.233 (part of the August 2026 update sequence) added a small but genuinely useful change to --worktree: you can now paste a GitLab merge request URL directly, with no need to look up the corresponding number yourself or manually convert the format first. This piece covers exactly how this works and how it differs from the old behavior.What Worktree Was Solving in the...