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Closing and deleting an issue

Closing and deleting an issue - GitHub Tutorial

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Closing and deleting an issue

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- [Narrator] To show that a development bug has been fixed, that work has stopped for an issue and will not be followed into completion, or that team member feedback has been acted on, we can close a GitHub issue. GitHub also has the ability to delete an issue in its entirety in the rare case where it is beneficial to do so, such as a security leak or a sensitive data has been shared publicly. Starting in a repo, we will navigate to our repo's issues under the issues tab. In the list of issues, click the issue we'd like to close. If we scroll down, we'll see the option to close issue. We can either click the close issue. Or optionally, we can change the reason for closing the issue by selecting the dropdown arrow next to the close issue button. Here we are given the option to close as completed or close as not planned. Anyone can close an issue they've opened. Repository owners, collaborators on repositories owned by a…

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