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I had claude basically prune all merged branches from a repo that's had 8 years of commits in it
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420 branches
In the thread “Another GitHub outage in the same day”
Helped: Automating bulk deletion of merged branches.
I'm starting to wonder if people doing what were previously unconventional workflows (which may not be performance optimized) are affecting things. For example, today, I had claude basically prune all merged branches from a repo that's had 8 years of commits in it. It found and deleted 420 branches that were merged but not deleted. …