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Restarting Vellum services safely involves capturing a preflight snapshot of processes, stopping the assistant and gateway, verifying they are down, and applying fallback cleanup before proceeding with git operations and a macOS app rebuild.

Branch-aware git handling defaults to pulling updates on main, skips git operations on feature branches to prevent unexpected changes, and supports explicit branch checkout or forced pulling for predictable local development restarts.

Preflight process capture and stop-and-verify shutdown are required to confirm assistant and gateway processes are fully terminated, triggering fallback cleanup if needed to prevent conflicts during the macOS app rebuild and relaunch.

You do not need to run a dependency install when restarting Vellum on a feature branch, because dependency installs are conditional and only execute when git pulls actually occur during the update process.

Yes, you can force a git pull or checkout a specific branch when restarting Vellum services, overriding default branch-aware behavior to apply explicit updates before rebuilding the macOS app and verifying health.

When restarting Vellum on feature branches without pulling, the process skips git operations and conditional dependency installs, leaving local changes untouched but deferring remote updates until an explicit pull is triggered.