We leave the feature branch on the remote repo indefinitely, but we really don't need to do so. The diff between the feature branch's squashed commit and the p

We leave the feature branch on the remote repo indefinitely, but we really don't need to do so. The diff between the feature branch's squashed commit and the previous commit of the project usually tells us everything we need to know when a problem crops up. We keep the feature branches "just in case", but in practice they're never used once the branch has been merged into production.