Feedback on Copilot Coding Agent branch management

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After using the GitHub Copilot coding agent to successfully close 30 issues, I noticed that the branches created by Copilot (e.g., those starting with copilot/fix-****) are not deleted after the related pull requests are closed. Now my repository has over 100 old Copilot branches cluttering the branch list.

Thanks to Copilot, I was able to generate the following commands to clean them up both locally and remotely:

Remote:

git branch -r | grep 'origin/copilot' | sed 's/origin\///' | xargs -n 1 git push origin --delete

Local:

git branch --format="%(refname:short)" | grep '^copilot' | xargs -r git branch -D

GitHub Copilot coding agent should automatically delete its branches when the related PR has been closed to keep repositories clean and manageable.

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