Pipelines triggers even when branch deleted

This is cross-posted here from https://getsupport.atlassian.com/servicedesk/customer/portal/11/BBS-106694 based on feedback there.

This may be an "as expected" race condition, but is still annoying/distracting. The rough steps to reproduce are:

1. Have a default pipelines configuration that catches all branches.
2. Have a PR on some branch X that triggers this default pipeline.
3. Push some final changes to branch X. This triggers a pipeline execution (as expected).
4. Before the pipeline in step 3 actually starts, merge the PR with "delete branch X" selected. This is the race condition.
5. Note that the pipeline in step 3 errors out with something like "fatal: Remote branch X not found in upstream origin"

Possible resolutions:

1. Cancel any pipelines running on branch X when branch X is deleted. This would still probably have a race condition if the cancel doesn't happen before the error is triggered.
2. Don't let users merge and delete branch X while there are pipelines for branch X still running / scheduled.
3. Queue the merge to happen later after all the pending pipelines have (successfully?) completed.