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Github-desktop - Branch list is not getting refreshed automatically, when remote branch is deleted

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Description

What, I have noticed, branches list is not getting refreshed automatically in case if remote branch is deleted, whereas, it works in case of pull requests.

Version

Github deskop v1.2

GitHub Desktop:

Operating system: windows 10 OS

Steps to Reproduce

Create a remote branch , it should be shown in Github desktop application
`Delete that branch from Remote’

Expected Behavior

Expectation is, that deleted branch should be removed from Github desktop as well

Actual Behavior

That branch remains there until deleted manually

Additional Information

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State:
Created 5 years ago
Comments:9 (4 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

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shiftkeycommented, May 31, 2018

@pawan-idrive @tian-heng can you confirm that the branches are checked out locally?

For branches that are never checked out locally, they should be removed on the next fetch - either background or a manual fetch (we do a --prune when fetching from a remote to cleanup the remote refs).

Once you’ve checked out the remote branch locally, we’re don’t clean those up currently because you might still want to work on them. We’ve talked about pruned merged branches in #750 (such as those from pull requests) but that’s not currently on our roadmap.

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tierninhocommented, Oct 29, 2019

@orvindemsy Please see this pull request for the logic behind branch pruning. Otherwise, you will have to remove the branch manually. Thanks for reaching out.

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