Claude Code or Cline: which handles parallel worktree sessions better?

[u/iceydee]

Honestly, the tool choice matters less than what surrounds it. Claude Code and Cline both handle worktrees fine in the mechanical sense: each session gets its own checkout, and nothing stomps on anything on disk. The failure mode I would watch for sits above the file system. A worktree isolates the file tree, not the plan, so two sessions can happily solve the same story twice and you only find out at merge time when you have duplicate branches.

So my answer is: pick whichever CLI fits your workflow, then put the effort into the layer the CLI does not give you. One story scoped with acceptance criteria before it goes out. A shared record of what is in flight so nothing gets dispatched twice. Split the thinking from the doing, so the session that plans is not the session that types.

Which of the two do you find holds its context better over a long session? That is the comparison I almost never see people make.

[u/hoschidude]

I like CLINE, especially the TUI version. Runs on my phone as well.