Please remove branches after they have been merged

[rpottsoh]

Please remove branches after they have been merged

[rpottsoh]

Do you mean branches on exercism/website-copy or branches on contributor/website-copy?

exercism/website-copy.

It should not be necessary to introduce new branches in exercism/website-copy for small changes.

I am not sure why there would be any need to create one ever.

A repository admin can enable a setting to delete head branches after PR's have been merged:
https://help.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/managing-the-automatic-deletion-of-branches

[rpottsoh]

As for this issue, I've been manually removing branches if people didn't, after merging.

This is what I have been doing as well, when I think to check.

This hasn't been a huge problem. It was just an annoyance for a mentor when they were trying to add their bio information and had accidentally branched off another branch that existed in the repo when they forked and didn't realize that they didn't have master checked out. I don't recall if the branch was left over from a PR or was still attached to an open PR. At any rate had that branch been part of the PR opener's fork and not a branch on Exercism/website-copy the mentor would not have been able to do what they did.

[sshine]

Do you mean branches on exercism/website-copy or branches on contributor/website-copy?

It should not be necessary to introduce new branches in exercism/website-copy for small changes.

[SleeplessByte]

As for this issue, I've been manually removing branches if people didn't, after merging.

It should not be necessary to introduce new branches in exercism/website-copy for small changes.

It actually is. Fast-forwarding all on master doesn't work as well as you'd want. As soon as one small change is merged, the rest becomes outdated and would need to be:

• rebased
• updated
• something to move the head

With a branch from master, merging into that but than finally squash merging solves that issue.

[iHiD]

Closing and unpinning this as it happens automatically now :) Thanks for managing this.