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Coding agents create branches and worktrees. Who cleans them up?

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As agentic development becomes more common, familiar tools like Git face a new workload: several agents creating branches, making checkpoint commits and opening worktrees throughout the day. The PR gets merged. But its local branch, review checkout and recovery records can stick around. We ran into…

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  1. 2026-10-11 02:39 · r/ChatGPTCoding
    Coding agents create branches and worktrees. Who cleans them up?

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