What do you do with your branch after a pull request on GitHub?

Question

My team is experimenting with using GitHub pull requests for code reviews. My only question is what do you do with the branch after you\'re done? I would think you\'d want t

Answer 1

I always delete branches that have been merged into master. A Git branch, after all, is a pointer to a commit, and that commit is now available in the history of another branch, so I don't need the branch anymore. (You can always recreate the branch by looking at the parents of the merge commit.)