Question

A development team practices regular repository maintenance. After a feature branch's pull request has been reviewed, approved, and merged into main, the team lead wants to keep the branch list tidy and reduce clutter for other contributors. What is the recommended maintenance action to take with the merged feature branch?

Accepted Answer

Delete the feature branch, since its changes are now safely preserved in main and its commit history remains accessible

Answer

Convert the feature branch into the new default branch to preserve the work

Answer

Leave the feature branch permanently so the merged commits are never lost

Answer

Archive the entire repository to remove the obsolete branch