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Clean Up a Merged Branch

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Recipe · 3 steps

Clean Up a Merged Branch

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Delete a branch only after confirming it has been merged.

  1. Read the branch and capture whether it has been merged.
  2. Unprotect the branch so it can be deleted.
  3. Delete the now-unprotected, merged branch.
What you'll need to have ready
  • privateToken: GitLab Private-Token used to authenticate the API calls.
  • projectId: The ID or URL-encoded path of the project.
  • branch: The branch name to clean up.
For your developer

Arazzo workflow gitlab:cleanup-merged-branch, 3 operations: getApiV4ProjectsIdRepositoryBranchesBranch → putApiV4ProjectsIdRepositoryBranchesBranchUnprotect → deleteApiV4ProjectsIdRepositoryBranchesBranch. Specs on APIs.io.

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