finishing-a-development-branch

To safely merge a git feature branch after tests pass, you verify test execution, determine the correct base branch, and choose between a local merge, creating a pull request, keeping, or discarding the branch.

Finalizing a development branch in a Git workflow involves presenting explicit deterministic options like local merge or pull request creation, ensuring tests pass, selecting the base branch, and cleaning up the workspace afterward.

You clean up a worktree after merging a feature branch by selecting a completion option that triggers workspace cleanup, automatically tidying up the worktree and the feature branch once the merge or PR action is finalized.

Yes, you can create a pull request instead of a local merge for your git branch. When finalizing development work, you are presented with explicit options that include pushing the branch and creating a PR.

If you want to keep your git branch instead of merging it, you can select the explicit keep option provided during the branch finalization process, which preserves the branch without executing a merge or workspace cleanup.

Yes, branch finalization requires tests to pass before proposing a merge. The workflow verifies that tests pass successfully before presenting deterministic merge, pull request, keep, or discard options.