Sonar branches are not deleted

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Managing inactive branches at a project level

You can set a branch to Keep when inactive at the project level from the Branches tab at Project Settings > Branches and Pull Requests. Here, you can also turn off protection for a branch so it will be deleted when it’s inactive for the number of days that have been specified in the global settings at Administration > General Settings > Housekeeping > Number of days before deleting inactive branches.

this functionality is not working for our projects in Sonarqube 9.9, there are so many branches more than 6 months and they are not protected, but still those branches are not getting deleted automatically.

can anyone help us on this issue

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Hey there.

The trigger to clean up old branches is that the project gets analyzed. Has the project been analyzed within the last six monhts?

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yes @Colin The project is being analyzed, but still old branches not getting deleted

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Thanks. Can you share a screenshot showing as much (branches that have both been analyzed recently and very old unprotected branches that have not been cleaned up).

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Hi @Colin

I am attaching a screenshot of few branches which are not protected and there are lot many projects older than 3 months

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For this project, I don’t see anything wrong yet. The oldest analysis is 1 month old and the last analysis 5 days ago. It’s possible that the analysis only reached 1 month old in the last 5 days. Any other examples?

Have you also confirmed the setting here has the expected value (default 30)?

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Yes @Colin There are few more example projects, i am adding you the screenshot for your reference

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Yes, i can also confirm the setting that has expected the value 30 days and attaching the screenshot of the same

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Thanks.

It looks like there’s no recent analysis (and most analyses were performed before SonarQube 9.9 LTS was even released!)

If you run a new analysis on this project, what happens? Are the branches cleaned up?

Did you upgrade from a previous version of SonarQube to this one, and if so what was your upgrade path?