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A merged git branch remains accessible even if deleted after being merged.
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A merged git branch remains accessible even if deleted after being merged

A merge commit has two parent sha1s, so the old branch would be accessible by its sha1 as one of the parents in the merge commit and thus wouldn't be garbage-collected by Git.

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