Fix branch-cleanup: fall back to head.label for deleted branches #248

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eblume merged 1 commit from fix/branch-cleanup-ref-label into main

2026-02-22 16:15:51 -08:00

eblume commented

2026-02-22 16:15:38 -08:00

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Summary

Forgejo rewrites head.ref to refs/pull/N/head once a PR's source branch is deleted from the remote
The original branch name is preserved in head.label
This was causing 188 out of 246 merged PRs to go undetected by the cleanup script
Fix: fall back to head.label when head.ref starts with refs/pull/

Test plan

Dry run correctly identifies 18 previously-missed local branches
Live run successfully deleted all 18

## Summary - Forgejo rewrites `head.ref` to `refs/pull/N/head` once a PR's source branch is deleted from the remote - The original branch name is preserved in `head.label` - This was causing 188 out of 246 merged PRs to go undetected by the cleanup script - Fix: fall back to `head.label` when `head.ref` starts with `refs/pull/` ## Test plan - [x] Dry run correctly identifies 18 previously-missed local branches - [x] Live run successfully deleted all 18

eblume added 1 commit

2026-02-22 16:15:38 -08:00

Fix branch-cleanup: use head.label when head.ref is rewritten 35630f41d1

Forgejo rewrites head.ref to refs/pull/N/head once the source branch
is deleted from the remote. The original branch name is preserved in
head.label. This was causing 188 out of 246 merged PRs to be missed.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>