How to get magit to ignore branches associated with closed pull requests?

Question

I'm struggling to find a good workflow for managing pull requests from magit. (I am approving pull requests, not generating them.) At the moment I am using m p to preview a pull request and m m to merge it, but my autocompletion is cluttered with obsolete pull-request branches like github/pull/112. How can I get magit to ignore these closed requests?

I would be happy enough to switch to some other workflow, but I have had no luck finding anything. (I did find magit-gh-pulls, which is on MELPA if marked "obsolete," but I cannot get it to configure properly with our Github Enterprise instance, and all I learned from its messages is that it is trying to contact api.github.com.)

Answer 1

I'm struggling to find a good workflow for managing pull requests from magit.

It sounds like you're just missing the "delete after merging" step. The manual entry for magit-branch-pull-request describes the intended flow:

• b Y (magit-branch-pull-request)

  This command creates and configures a new branch from a Github
  pull-request, creating and configuring a new remote if necessary.

  [...]

  When you later delete the local pull-request branch, then you are
  offered to also delete the corresponding remote, provided it is not
  the upstream remote and that the tracking branch that corresponds to
  the deleted branch is the only remaining tracked branch. [...]

Pull-request branches are normal branches, so they can be deleted with b k (magit-branch-delete) as usual.