PostHog/posthog

Confirgurable default branch prefixes/names

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#76,277 opened on Apr 14, 2026

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https://posthog.slack.com/archives/C09G8Q32R6F/p1776104269621289

Allow users to set the default branch name to be prefixed with nothing/something different than posthog-code/.

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Research direction
Find all references to 'posthog code/' in the codebase. Understand the branch creation flow and where the default prefix is set. Review existing configuration patterns to determine how to expose this as a user setting.
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python
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developer experiencetooling
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3
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GitPythonBackend Development
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