Release Notes Improved

• Git-style external subcommands: wt foo now runs wt-foo from PATH when foo is not a built-in, mirroring git foo → git-foo. Third-party tools can be installed and invoked as wt without touching this repo. Unrecognized commands show a git-style error with typo suggestions. Docs (#2054, thanks @pablospe for the suggestion in #2053)
• {{ owner }} template variable: Expands to the GitHub/GitLab repository owner, useful for constructing URLs or paths in hook templates and worktree-path. (#2051, thanks @greggdonovan)
• Typed env-var config overrides: WORKTRUNK__LIST__TIMEOUT_MS=30 and other typed overrides now work correctly. Previously, string-typed env values silently failed deserialization, wiping all user config and falling back to defaults. (#2062)
• Config error attribution: Config load errors now identify the source — file errors show TOML line/column pointers, env-var errors list the offending WORKTRUNK_* variable. Previously all failures showed a generic message. (#2068)
• Per-symbol atomic status rendering: The Status column in wt list and the wt switch picker now renders each symbol independently — unresolved gates show ⋯ at their position instead of fabricating defaults when the collect deadline expires. (#2067)
• Hook error messages: Malformed hook command config now lists the three accepted forms (string, named table, pipeline list) with a pointer to wt hook --help, instead of an opaque serde error. (#2042)
• Stale trash cleanup: wt remove now sweeps orphaned .git/wt/trash entries older than 24 hours after each removal, reclaiming space from interrupted background removals. (#2039) Changed
• wt hook exits successfully when no hooks are configured: Previously errored; now prints a warning and exits 0, so scripts and CI can invoke wt hook unconditionally. (#2056)
• Hook output log layout: Log files moved from flat .git/wt/logs/{name}.log to nested {branch}/{source}/{hook-type}/{name}.log. Per-branch listing/clearing is now O(that branch). logs get --format=json paths changed to relative. Legacy flat files are swept automatically. (#2041) Fixed
• wt config show false "Not configured": When the shell init line lives in a sourced file (common with dotfile managers), config show no longer reports "Not configured" — it checks whether integration is actually active at runtime. Fixes #1306. (#2066, thanks @wouter-intveld for reporting)
• Remove-then-switch hint: The hint for shadowed remote branches now uses --foreground so the chained wt remove && wt switch actually works (background removal left a placeholder directory blocking the switch). (#2040)
• Conflict detection unified: The wt switch picker and wt list now both run both conflict probes (commit-level and working-tree). Previously the picker skipped the cheaper probe, leaving the fallback unreachable for clean worktrees; wt list non-full skipped the working-tree probe, missing conflicts from interrupted rebases. (#2064) Documentation
• Surfaced vars & aliases on homepage and tips-patterns, cross-linked state keys to dedicated docs, tightened hook links. (#2035, #2036, #2037, #2038) Internal
• Subcommand ordering aligned to documented policies (pipeline order for step, CRUD for state actions). (#2043, #2044) Install worktrunk 0.36.0 Install prebuilt binaries via shell script curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -LsSf https://github.com/max-sixty/worktrunk/releases/download/v0.36.0/worktrunk-installer.sh | sh && wt config shell install Install prebuilt binaries via powershell script powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -c "irm https://github.com/max-sixty/worktrunk/releases/download/v0.36.0/worktrunk-installer.ps1 | iex"; git-wt config shell install Install prebuilt binaries via Homebrew brew install worktrunk && wt config shell install Download worktrunk 0.36.0 ────────────────────────────────────────────────┬───────────────────┬───────────── File │Platform │Checksum ────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────── worktrunk-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz │Apple Silicon macOS│checksum ────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────── worktrunk-x86_64-apple-darwin.tar.xz │Intel macOS │checksum ────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────── worktrunk-x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip │x64 Windows │checksum ────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────── worktrunk-aarch64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz │ARM64 MUSL Linux │checksum ────────────────────────────────────────────────┼───────────────────┼───────────── worktrunk-x86_64-unknown-linux-musl.tar.xz │x64 MUSL Linux │checksum ────────────────────────────────────────────────┴───────────────────┴───────────── Install via Cargo cargo install worktrunk && wt config shell install Install via Winget (Windows) winget install max-sixty.worktrunk && git-wt config shell install Install via AUR (Arch Linux) paru worktrunk-bin && wt config shell install