I recently merged a branch into master and want to delete it now that I'm done with it. But github tells me that I can't delete it because some open pull request depends on it. How do I find out which pull requests depend on this branch?
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To find the open pull requests which depend on a particular branch called foo (i.e. pull requests for merging other branches into branch foo), use the following Filter query in the Pull requests tab:
is:pr base:foo is:open
This will identify the Pull Requests preventing the deletion of branch foo
I found that one of my open pull requests was trying to merge into the branch I was trying to delete, instead of merging into master as it was supposed to. Fixing this allowed me to delete my branch.
I could not find a way to easily view all the open pull requests involving any given branch, so I had to go through my open PRs one by one.
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