CircleCI automatically deletes branches when we receive a branch deletion event from your VCS provider (GitHub / Bitbucket). For various reasons, this may become out of sync.
Instructions:
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Push the same branch name up to your VCS provider
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Run the deletion one again to retrigger the deletion
The branch should now be deleted.
Additional Notes
If you attempt to delete a branch while a job connected to that branch is still running, the branch will be re-created in CircleCI when the job is finished. Please allow all jobs running on a branch to finish before deleting them from the VCS provider to assure they will stay deleted.
Comments
Aaaaah, this is it !
Glad to do some cleanup of ghost branches :)
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