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Remove leftover branch git config when deleting local branches#8832
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[WIP] Fix issue with displaying deleted local branches
Remove leftover branch git config when deleting local branches
Jul 7, 2026
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The "Delete local branches and remotes" command (
pr.deleteLocalBranchesNRemotes) listed branches that no longer exist.getBranchDeletionItemsbuilds its picklist from.git/config, and stale[branch "<name>"]sections (left behind when a branch is deleted out-of-band) keep those branches appearing.Changes
deleteBranchesconfig cleanup — after unsetting the PR metadata keys,deleteConfignow also strips any remainingbranch.<name>.*entries. This happens in the existing sequential config step (config ops can't be parallelized), scoped to the exact branch prefix so other branches/remotes are untouched, and logs rather than aborts on failure.MockRepositorygainsunsetConfig, anddeleteBranchnow throws a realistic git "not found" error (withstderr) for missing branches.Note: the electron test runner could not execute in the sandbox (VS Code download is network-blocked); tests type-check and the cleanup logic was verified in isolation.