(Sourcetree on Mac)
This has happened for years at multiple companies. I can't imagine it's something I'm doing wrong (or right), so perhaps it's a feature.
My coworker develops and pushes some code. I see the branch under Remotes in Sourcetree. She creates a PR. I merge it and delete the branch on github.com. I go back to Sourcetree and I still see the branch listed under Remotes. Weeks later it is still there. There are 2 things I can do:
- Delete the branch & push the deletion
- I, unsurprisingly, get "error: unable to delete 'branchA': remote ref does not exist"
or
- I can check out the branch!
- I check it out with no problem, and when I commit and push to origin it "remembers" the history of branch as if it was always there, it's not as if I created a new branch with the same name
Is this supposed to happen? There is an option "Keep backups on destructive operations" in the Sourcetree Settings. Maybe it's a feature?