Delete Comment in stale branch

[sacagoncalve]

Hello. If I delete the comment generated by the github action to keep the branch around, and then if the action runs again, the branch will be marked as staled again. So delete the comment is not the best solution to keep branches for being staled. Can you give me a feedback about this? @fpicalausa

[fpicalausa]

Currently the best solutions are to either:

• protect the branch, or
• exclude it specifically from the run in the action configuration, or
• push a new empty commit on top of the branch which will reset the timer, or
• rebase your branch on top of the current trunk which will reset the timer

Initially I had thought of adding some sort of [stale:keep-forever] comments tag allowing to skip deletion, but I fear this would lead to requests to ignore those comments after a while and complicate the logic.

@sacagoncalve can you perhaps tell me more about your use case?

[joshuawsmith]

I was also looking for a similar feature. We have a few repositories where we might do some proof of concept work in a branch, but not act on it for a while. We want to keep that poc branch around for reference, but removing the comment or pushing small commits to keep it from going stale seemed hacky. But your comment about protecting the branch feels like a good work around.