Delete a closed pull request from GitHub

Question

I accidentally made a wrong pull request and ended up closing the request myself  It s in a closed state right now but it s accessible via direct URL and showing on my activity bar   Is there any way to delete a pull request completely so it s no longer accessible via URL or shows up on your activity history

User · Answer

5 step to do what you want if you made the pull request from a forked repository:

reopen the pull request
checkout to the branch which you made the pull request
reset commit to the last master commit(that means remove all you new code)
git push --force
delete your forked repository which made the pull request

And everything is done, good luck!

User · Answer

There is no way you can delete a pull request yourself -- you and the repo owner  and all users with push access to it  can close it  but it will remain in the log  This is part of the philosophy of not denying hiding what happened during development   However  if there are critical reasons for deleting it  this is mainly violation of Github Terms of Service   Github support staff will delete it for you   Whether or not they are willing to delete your PR for you is something you can easily ask them  just drop them an email at support github com  UPDATE  Currently Github requires support requests to be created here  https   support github com contact

User · Answer

This is the reply I received from Github when I asked them to delete a pull request    Thanks for getting in touch  Pull requests can t be deleted through the UI at the moment and we ll only delete pull requests when they contain sensitive information like passwords or other credentials

[github] Delete a closed pull request from GitHub

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