docs(deferred): track branch-deletion cross-fork safety check#58
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Bulk branch deletion in TheDave94/oriel-dashboard on 2026-05-19 and 2026-05-22 silently closed 49 cross-fork PRs in TheRealSimon42/simon42-dashboard-strategy. GitHub auto-closes a PR when its head branch is deleted, recording the deleting account as the close actor — looks like deliberate closure to the maintainer but isn't. All 49 PRs have since been recovered (Cluster C 17-PR batch restored on 2026-05-23; TheRealSimon42#250 restored after the rebundling-map investigation). The next bulk cleanup is the actual risk; this entry pins the safety check before any future automation lands. Recovery state at time of writing: 17 grouped/standalone Cluster C PRs open, TheRealSimon42#236 re-closed (superseded by TheRealSimon42#276 within Cluster C), TheRealSimon42#250 open as standalone. Remaining ~30 closed-not-merged originals from May 19 were deliberately rebundled into the grouped/* PRs and stay closed correctly. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Adds a DEFERRED entry under "CI / Infrastructure" pinning the safety check that needs to land before any future bulk branch-deletion automation runs in this repo.
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Bulk branch deletion in
TheDave94/oriel-dashboardon 2026-05-19 and 2026-05-22 silently closed 49 cross-fork PRs inTheRealSimon42/simon42-dashboard-strategy. The mechanism: GitHub auto-closes a PR when its head branch is deleted, recording the deleting account as the close actor — looks like deliberate closure to the maintainer but isn't.Recovery is complete. All 49 affected PRs have been recovered:
show_person_badgestoggle (closes #148) TheRealSimon42/simon42-dashboard-strategy#236 (inadvertently double-restored alongside the rollup that supersedes it, feat: person badge controls + zone-aware presence + native search variant + Quick Lights row TheRealSimon42/simon42-dashboard-strategy#276) re-closed with a courtesy commentWhat this entry pins
gh api \"repos/{upstream}/pulls?head=TheDave94:{branch}&state=open\"per branch — fast enough for any reasonable batch.Docs-only. No code change. Will not trigger release-please.
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