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What to do after pull request?

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What to do after a successfull pull request?

Delete feature branch in fork remote and locally and update forked master branch.

Delete feature branch on GitHub via button in pull request
Delete feature branch locally via git branch -d <feature_branch> and remote tracked feature branch via git branch -dr origin/<feature_branch>
Update forked master branch via git fetch upstream and git rebase upstream/master and finally git push origin master

Read more:

Stackoverflow: My pull request has been merged, what to do next?
GitHub Blog: Tidying up after Pull Requests
Stackoverflow: Delete a Git branch both locally and remotely
Stackoverflow: How to update a GitHub forked repository?

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