Multi-Repo Branch Hygiene at Scale When managing 17+ repos with accumulating stale branches: (1) Identify patterns (worktree branches, orphan histories, protected branch errors) across all repos in parallel; (2) Resolve merge conflicts by checking if HEAD (main) is more current than the feature branch, then prefer HEAD for safe resolution; (3) For each dirty repo, commit changes to main, push, and clean up merged branches locally and remotely; (4) Use stash/restore workflow to preserve uncommitted work during branch operations. Large repos (58MB+ git index) will have slow — proceed with other…