delete-old-releases

This action provides the following functionality for GitHub Actions users:

• Deleting old releases from a repository.
• Optionally removing the tags associated with the removed releases.
• Optionally keeping the latest patch of each older minor versions.
• Configuring how many releases to keep.

Usage

See action.yml

steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- uses: Nats-ji/delete-old-releases@v1
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    keep-count: 5
    keep-old-minor-releases: true
    keep-old-minor-releases-count: 1

Input

Input	Required	Default	Description
token	Yes		Your Github token. Can be abtained by using ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
keep-count	No	3	Number of releases to keep.
keep-old-minor-releases	Yes	true	Keep the latest release of each older minor versions.
keep-old-minor-releases-by	No	'minor'	Which semver level should we use to keep old release? Can be: 'major', 'minor', or 'patch'.
keep-old-minor-releases-count	No	1	Number of old releases in each minor version to keep.
include-prerelease	No	false	Always include prerelease versions. (node-semver)
semver-loose	No	false	Interpret versions and ranges loosely. (node-semver)
remove-tags	No	false	Also remove the tags associated with the removed releases.
dry-run	No	false	Doesn't delete anything. Only a test run.

Example

Say you have the following versions in your release:

[
    2.1.5, 2.1.4, 2.1.3, 2.1.2, 2.1.1, 2.1.0,
    2.0.3, 2.0.2, 2.0.1, 2.0.0,
    1.2.3, 1.2.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.0,
    1.1.3, 1.1.2, 1.1.1, 1.1.0,
    1.0.1, 1.0.0,
]

Only keep the newest releases

The following config will delete all but 2.1.5, 2.1.4:

- uses: Nats-ji/delete-old-releases@v1
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    keep-count: 2
    keep-old-minor-releases: false

Keep older minor releases

The following config will delete all but 2.1.5, 2.1.4, 2.0.3, 1.2.3, 1.1.3, 1.0.1:

- uses: Nats-ji/delete-old-releases@v1
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    keep-count: 2
    keep-old-minor-releases: true

The following config will delete all but 2.1.5, 2.1.4, 2.0.3, 1.2.3:

- uses: Nats-ji/delete-old-releases@v1
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
    keep-count: 2
    keep-old-minor-releases: true
    keep-old-minor-releases-by: 'major'

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License

Contributions

Contributions are welcome!