In looking through my team's branches in Bitbucket Cloud, I'm seeing many from pull requests which had already been merged into `main`. I have two questions regarding this:How can I find a list of branches merged into `main` yet still exist?How can I default to "yes" the option to delete a branch after it has been merged while creating a PR?Update 2025-04-02: This feature has been rolled out. Turn it on via "Repository settings" > "Branching model" and look for "Delete source branch by default"

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Delete branches from merged pull requests

In looking through my team's branches in Bitbucket Cloud, I'm seeing many from pull requests which had already been merged into `main`. I have two questions regarding this:

How can I find a list of branches merged into `main` yet still exist?
How can I default to "yes" the option to delete a branch after it has been merged while creating a PR?
- Update 2025-04-02: This feature has been rolled out. Turn it on via "Repository settings" > "Branching model" and look for "Delete source branch by default"

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Hi @Eric Poe

1. The branches page in the repository menu has a 'Merged branches' filter.

Screenshot From 2025-02-19 16-33-02.png

2. This is currently not supported but there is a feature request here.

Alternatively, we provide a Bitbucket Cloud App - Flowie, which has support for defining default values such as close source.

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That's a huge help, thank you!

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