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You can run a Devin Local session inside a git worktree, so the agent can edit, build, and test without touching your main workspace. Pick the location from the agent location selector when starting a session:
  • New worktree — Devin Desktop creates a fresh worktree for the session.
  • Existing worktree — choose one you already have from the selector’s Local submenu.
Once the agent is done, click Merge on the session to bring the worktree’s changes back into your workspace.
You can only pick a worktree at the beginning of a session. Conversations cannot be moved to a different worktree once started.

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Location

Worktrees are organized by repo name inside ~/.windsurf/worktrees/<repo_name>. Each worktree is given a unique random name. To see a list of active worktrees, run git worktree list from within the repository directory.
Because worktrees live in a different directory than your original project, build systems or tools that rely on relative paths (e.g., ../shared-lib references, symlinked dependencies, or monorepo source dependencies resolved by path) may break inside a worktree.

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Cleanup

Devin Desktop automatically cleans up older worktrees when creating a new worktree to prevent excessive disk usage. Each workspace can have up to 20 worktrees. Worktrees are cleaned up based on when they were last accessed — the oldest ones are removed first. This cleanup happens on a per-workspace basis, so worktrees from different repositories remain independent of each other. If you delete a session, Devin Desktop also deletes the associated worktree.

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Source Control Panel

By default, Devin Desktop does not show agent-created worktrees in the Source Control panel. Set git.showDevinWorktrees to true in your settings to show them.
The older git.showWindsurfWorktrees setting is deprecated. It is still honored for existing configurations when git.showDevinWorktrees is not set, but use git.showDevinWorktrees going forward.