From cc89aa5c430a6bee51483cda91d0f92e7437f29e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erez Rokah <erezrokah@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2020 12:42:32 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix(open-authoring): properly delete open authoring branches
 (#3512)

---
 packages/netlify-cms-backend-github/src/API.ts | 7 +++----
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/netlify-cms-backend-github/src/API.ts b/packages/netlify-cms-backend-github/src/API.ts
index 84192724..f394a1e6 100644
--- a/packages/netlify-cms-backend-github/src/API.ts
+++ b/packages/netlify-cms-backend-github/src/API.ts
@@ -712,16 +712,15 @@ export default class API {
 
   filterOpenAuthoringBranches = async (branch: string) => {
     try {
-      const contentKey = contentKeyFromBranch(branch);
-      const { pullRequest, collection, slug } = await this.retrieveMetadata(contentKey);
+      const pullRequest = await this.getBranchPullRequest(branch);
       const { state: currentState, merged_at: mergedAt } = pullRequest;
       if (
         pullRequest.number !== MOCK_PULL_REQUEST &&
         currentState === PullRequestState.Closed &&
         mergedAt
       ) {
-        // pr was merged, delete entry
-        await this.deleteUnpublishedEntry(collection, slug);
+        // pr was merged, delete branch
+        await this.deleteBranch(branch);
         return { branch, filter: false };
       } else {
         return { branch, filter: true };