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 - Merge flow: `feature/*` → `develop` → `main`.
 - **Squash merge** `feature/*` into `develop` (one clean commit per feature).
 - **Merge commit** `develop` into `main` (marks deploy points).
+- Always `git pull` the target branch before merging into it.
 
 # Instructions