diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 5603e96f08..96f647b8db 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 
 ### New features
 
+* `jj workspace add` can now take _multiple_ `--revision` arguments, which will
+  create a new workspace with its working-copy commit on top of all the parents,
+  as if you had run `jj new r1 r2 r3 ...`.
+
 ### Fixed bugs
 
 
diff --git a/cli/src/commands/workspace.rs b/cli/src/commands/workspace.rs
index 429ed65271..088b11da48 100644
--- a/cli/src/commands/workspace.rs
+++ b/cli/src/commands/workspace.rs
@@ -61,10 +61,20 @@ pub(crate) struct WorkspaceAddArgs {
     /// directory.
     #[arg(long)]
     name: Option<String>,
-    /// The revision that the workspace should be created at; a new working copy
-    /// commit will be created on top of it.
+    /// A list of parent revisions for the working-copy commit of the newly
+    /// created workspace. You may specify nothing, or any number of parents.
+    ///
+    /// If no revisions are specified, the new workspace will be created, and
+    /// its working-copy commit will exist on top of the parent(s) of the
+    /// working-copy commit in the current workspace, i.e. they will share the
+    /// same parent(s).
+    ///
+    /// If any revisions are specified, the new workspace will be created, and
+    /// the new working-copy commit will be created with all these revisions as
+    /// parents, i.e. the working-copy commit will exist as if you had run `jj
+    /// new r1 r2 r3 ...`.
     #[arg(long, short)]
-    revision: Option<RevisionArg>,
+    revision: Vec<RevisionArg>,
 }
 
 /// Stop tracking a workspace's working-copy commit in the repo
@@ -167,9 +177,9 @@ fn cmd_workspace_add(
         &name
     ));
 
-    let parents = if let Some(specific_rev) = &args.revision {
-        vec![old_workspace_command.resolve_single_rev(specific_rev, ui)?]
-    } else {
+    // If no parent revisions are specified, create a working-copy commit based
+    // on the parent of the current working-copy commit.
+    let parents = if args.revision.is_empty() {
         // Check out parents of the current workspace's working-copy commit, or the
         // root if there is no working-copy commit in the current workspace.
         if let Some(old_wc_commit_id) = tx
@@ -181,6 +191,14 @@ fn cmd_workspace_add(
         } else {
             vec![tx.repo().store().root_commit()]
         }
+    } else {
+        crate::commands::rebase::resolve_destination_revs(
+            &old_workspace_command,
+            ui,
+            &args.revision,
+        )?
+        .into_iter()
+        .collect_vec()
     };
 
     let tree = merge_commit_trees(tx.repo(), &parents)?;
diff --git a/cli/tests/test_workspaces.rs b/cli/tests/test_workspaces.rs
index cf12b8e0fa..b2445bbce1 100644
--- a/cli/tests/test_workspaces.rs
+++ b/cli/tests/test_workspaces.rs
@@ -164,6 +164,72 @@ fn test_workspaces_add_workspace_at_revision() {
     "###);
 }
 
+/// Test multiple `-r` flags to `workspace add` to create a workspace
+/// working-copy commit with multiple parents.
+#[test]
+fn test_workspaces_add_workspace_multiple_revisions() {
+    let test_env = TestEnvironment::default();
+    test_env.jj_cmd_ok(test_env.env_root(), &["init", "--git", "main"]);
+    let main_path = test_env.env_root().join("main");
+
+    std::fs::write(main_path.join("file-1"), "contents").unwrap();
+    test_env.jj_cmd_ok(&main_path, &["commit", "-m", "first"]);
+    test_env.jj_cmd_ok(&main_path, &["new", "-r", "root()"]);
+
+    std::fs::write(main_path.join("file-2"), "contents").unwrap();
+    test_env.jj_cmd_ok(&main_path, &["commit", "-m", "second"]);
+    test_env.jj_cmd_ok(&main_path, &["new", "-r", "root()"]);
+
+    std::fs::write(main_path.join("file-3"), "contents").unwrap();
+    test_env.jj_cmd_ok(&main_path, &["commit", "-m", "third"]);
+    test_env.jj_cmd_ok(&main_path, &["new", "-r", "root()"]);
+
+    insta::assert_snapshot!(get_log_output(&test_env, &main_path), @r###"
+    @  5b36783cd11c4607a329c5e8c2fd9097c9ce2add
+    │ ◉  23881f07b53ce1ea936ca8842e344dea9c3356e5
+    ├─╯
+    │ ◉  1f6a15f0af2a985703864347f5fdf27a82fc3d73
+    ├─╯
+    │ ◉  e7d7dbb91c5a543ea680711093e689916d5f31df
+    ├─╯
+    ◉  0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+    "###);
+
+    let (_, stderr) = test_env.jj_cmd_ok(
+        &main_path,
+        &[
+            "workspace",
+            "add",
+            "--name=merge",
+            "../merged",
+            "-r=238",
+            "-r=1f6",
+            "-r=e7d",
+        ],
+    );
+    insta::assert_snapshot!(stderr.replace('\\', "/"), @r###"
+    Created workspace in "../merged"
+    Working copy now at: wmwvqwsz fa8fdc28 (empty) (no description set)
+    Parent commit      : mzvwutvl 23881f07 third
+    Parent commit      : kkmpptxz 1f6a15f0 second
+    Parent commit      : qpvuntsm e7d7dbb9 first
+    Added 3 files, modified 0 files, removed 0 files
+    "###);
+
+    insta::assert_snapshot!(get_log_output(&test_env, &main_path), @r###"
+    ◉      fa8fdc28af12d3c96b1e0ed062f5a8f9a99818f0 merge@
+    ├─┬─╮
+    │ │ ◉  e7d7dbb91c5a543ea680711093e689916d5f31df
+    │ ◉ │  1f6a15f0af2a985703864347f5fdf27a82fc3d73
+    │ ├─╯
+    ◉ │  23881f07b53ce1ea936ca8842e344dea9c3356e5
+    ├─╯
+    │ @  5b36783cd11c4607a329c5e8c2fd9097c9ce2add default@
+    ├─╯
+    ◉  0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
+    "###);
+}
+
 /// Test making changes to the working copy in a workspace as it gets rewritten
 /// from another workspace
 #[test]