From 9113092f5c4444d803fba0cdc03133c036efb414 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Corey Johnson <probablycorey@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 May 2020 15:19:39 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Delete via api

---
 api/queries_pr.go | 8 ++++++++
 command/pr.go     | 2 +-
 git/git.go        | 6 ------
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/api/queries_pr.go b/api/queries_pr.go
index 64925fae5..dd5b509d1 100644
--- a/api/queries_pr.go
+++ b/api/queries_pr.go
@@ -1014,6 +1014,14 @@ func PullRequestReady(client *Client, repo ghrepo.Interface, pr *PullRequest) er
 	return err
 }
 
+func BranchDeleteRemote(client *Client, repo ghrepo.Interface, branch string) error {
+	var response struct {
+		NodeID string `json:"node_id"`
+	}
+	path := fmt.Sprintf("/repos/%s/%s/git/refs/heads/%s", repo.RepoOwner, repo.RepoName, branch)
+	return client.REST("GET", path, nil, &response)
+}
+
 func min(a, b int) int {
 	if a < b {
 		return a
diff --git a/command/pr.go b/command/pr.go
index 6a080b7f4..e757152b6 100644
--- a/command/pr.go
+++ b/command/pr.go
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ func prMerge(cmd *cobra.Command, args []string) error {
 			}
 		}
 
-		err = git.DeleteRemoteBranch(pr.HeadRefName)
+		err = api.BranchDeleteRemote(apiClient, baseRepo, pr.HeadRefName)
 		if err != nil {
 			err = fmt.Errorf("failed to delete remote branch %s: %w", utils.Cyan(pr.HeadRefName), err)
 			return err
diff --git a/git/git.go b/git/git.go
index 529dc792d..355f905f0 100644
--- a/git/git.go
+++ b/git/git.go
@@ -209,12 +209,6 @@ func DeleteLocalBranch(branch string) error {
 	return err
 }
 
-func DeleteRemoteBranch(branch string) error {
-	configCmd := GitCommand("push", "origin", "--delete", branch)
-	_, err := run.PrepareCmd(configCmd).Output()
-	return err
-}
-
 func HasLocalBranch(branch string) bool {
 	configCmd := GitCommand("rev-parse", "--verify", "refs/heads/"+branch)
 	_, err := run.PrepareCmd(configCmd).Output()