Manipulate Branches of a Repository Using GitHub REST APIs

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import os
import subprocess
from getpass import getpass
from requests.exceptions import HTTPError
from github_rest_api import Organization, Repository, RepositoryType, User
from github_rest_api.utils import strip_patch_version

env = os.environ.copy()
env["GOPASS_AGE_PASSWORD"] = getpass("Enter gopass password: ")
token = subprocess.run(
    ["gopass", "show", "-o", "github.com/token"],
    check=True,
    capture_output=True,
    text=True,
    env=env,
).stdout

repo = Repository(token="", repo="legendu-net/docker-rust-cicd")
repo

<github_rest_api.github.Repository at 0x7fda4c157e00>

repo.get_branches()

[{'name': 'dev',
  'commit': {'sha': 'b4666bd451cf78711a8d6b8c6aff7cb9b410c911',
   'url': 'https://api.github.com/repos/legendu-net/docker-rust-cicd/commits/b4666bd451cf78711a8d6b8c6aff7cb9b410c911'},
  'protected': False},
 {'name': 'main',
  'commit': {'sha': 'f3debc34905c1734ed269aea2a425e11ef72851e',
   'url': 'https://api.github.com/repos/legendu-net/docker-rust-cicd/commits/f3debc34905c1734ed269aea2a425e11ef72851e'},
  'protected': True}]

repo.delete_ref?

Signature: repo.delete_ref(ref: str) -> None
Docstring:
Delete a reference from this repository.
:param ref: The reference to delete from this repository.
File:      ~/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/github_rest_api/github.py
Type:      method

repo.delete_branch?

Signature: repo.delete_branch(branch: str) -> None
Docstring:
Delete a branch from this repository.
:param branch: The branch to delete from this repository.
File:      ~/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/github_rest_api/github.py
Type:      method