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A guided workflow helps you choose a merge strategy by verifying tests, cleaning branch history, determining the base branch, and presenting explicit options to execute the chosen integration path with minimal risk to mainline.

The best way to clean up git worktrees is to follow a stepwise workflow that executes your chosen merge path and then performs associated worktree cleanup as the final post-merge step.

To prepare a feature branch for a pull request, verify tests pass, clean branch history, perform a documentation sweep, identify the base branch, and select from explicit PR creation or merge options.

Yes, a structured workflow presents explicit cleanup as one of four options alongside merge strategies, ensuring safe and auditable branch management decisions when you need to close a branch.

Yes, passing tests are required before finishing a development branch, as the guided workflow applies specifically when tests pass and you need to choose a safe, auditable path for integrating changes.