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Hi! Does LakeFS support an automatic retention policy for branches? For example, does LakeFS support creating a policy where a branch with a specific prefix with no new commits after a certain number of days is deleted? I saw that there is an object retention policy, but am not sure about branch retention. Thanks!

Hi Clinton :wave::skin-tone-4:

I'll take a look into that and will let you know soon!

Thanks! Our use case is that we create short-lived branches and may forget to delete them. I'm hoping that we can configure LakeFS to remove those stale branches for us. :slightly_smiling_face:

I see, looks like a useful feature if it doesn't exist already :slightly_smiling_face:

As far as I understand, there's no such an option in lakeFS ATM but I want to make sure I'm correct about it so I'll get back to you with a final answer for that.

Meanwhile, maybe you can use lakeFS `post_create_branch` hooks in order to achieve this capability.

<@U039W8JTQQ0> thanks for this! I've opened <https://github.com/treeverse/lakeFS/issues/3698|an issue> to track this feature proposal. Feel free to add context and comment on it!