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How to delete a branch from the Website repo #6416
Description
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Update
- Progress: I still need to write a decision record on why we no longer need instructions for junior devs to delete branches because I changed permissions so website-merge team has explicit access to create a branch. Also, by GitHub's default settings, teams with admin or maintain roles (so for the website repo, website-admins team and website-maintain team respectively) can also create branches, though maintain may need to pass required checks to push.
- Blockers: None
- Availability: TBD
- ETA: TBD
Tasks & Notes
- We don't need instructions for how to delete branches for junior devs but should we still have instructions for website-admins team to delete branches created by them or Merge Team members?
- At the meeting yesterday, we decided that we do need an issue template for deleting branches
- It would get used by people who wanted to report a branch that needed to be removed, but who don't have admin permission on the repo.
- It would have the default label
role: dev lead
Hello @JessicaLucindaCheng-
Please add an update using the below template (even if you have a pull request). Afterwards, remove
thestatus: 2 Weeks Inactivelabel and add thestatus: Updatedlabel.- Progress: What is the current status of this issue? What have you completed and what is left to do?
- Blockers: Explain any difficulties or errors encountered.
- Availability: How much time will you have this week to work on this issue?
- ETA: When do you expect this issue to be completed?
- Pictures (optional): Add any pictures of the visual changes made to the site so far.
If you need help, be sure to either: 1) place your issue in the "Questions / In Review" status-column of the
Project Board and ask for help at your next meeting; 2) put astatus: Help Wantedlabel on your issue
and pull request; or 3) put up a request for assistance on the team's hfla-site Slack channel.Please note that including your questions in the issue comments- along with screenshots, if applicable-
will help us to help you. Here and here are examples of well-formed questions.You are receiving this comment because your last update was before 09/18/2026, 12:07 AM PDT PST.
Hello @JessicaLucindaCheng-
Please add an update using the below template (even if you have a pull request). Afterwards, remove
thestatus: 2 Weeks Inactivelabel and add thestatus: Updatedlabel.- Progress: What is the current status of this issue? What have you completed and what is left to do?
- Blockers: Explain any difficulties or errors encountered.
- Availability: How much time will you have this week to work on this issue?
- ETA: When do you expect this issue to be completed?
- Pictures (optional): Add any pictures of the visual changes made to the site so far.
If you need help, be sure to either: 1) place your issue in the "Questions / In Review" status-column of the
Project Board and ask for help at your next meeting; 2) put astatus: Help Wantedlabel on your issue
and pull request; or 3) put up a request for assistance on the team's hfla-site Slack channel.Please note that including your questions in the issue comments- along with screenshots, if applicable-
will help us to help you. Here and here are examples of well-formed questions.You are receiving this comment because your last update was before 09/25/2026, 12:11 AM PDT PST.
Overview
We need instructions for members of the website-admin team 1 for deleting branches off the Website repo so that we do not have extraneous, unneeded branches.
Action Items
[Insert link to instructions]and replace it with the link to the comment with the instructionsClick here to see how to uncheck the Dependency label
Resources/Instructions
Footnotes
website-admins team ↩
Link to instructions for how to delete a branch from the Website repo: ↩