name: Cleanup Branches (Merged or Closed) on: schedule: - cron: "0 3 * * *" # daily at 03:00 UTC workflow_dispatch: permissions: contents: write pull-requests: read jobs: cleanup: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps: - name: Checkout repository uses: actions/checkout@v4 - name: Delete merged or closed branches older than 7 days env: GH_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }} run: | set -euo pipefail CUTOFF_DATE=$(date -u -d "7 days ago" +%s) echo "Cutoff timestamp: $CUTOFF_DATE" # Get all existing branches (except protected ones) echo "Fetching existing branches..." EXISTING_BRANCHES=$(gh api repos/${{ github.repository }}/git/matching-refs/heads \ --jq '.[].ref | ltrimstr("refs/heads/")' | grep -vE '^(main|master|develop)$' || true) if [ -z "$EXISTING_BRANCHES" ]; then echo "No branches to check." exit 0 fi echo "Found $(echo "$EXISTING_BRANCHES" | wc -l) branches to check." # Get branches from old merged/closed PRs echo "Fetching closed/merged PRs older than 7 days..." OLD_PR_BRANCHES=$(gh pr list \ --state all \ --base main \ --json state,mergedAt,closedAt,headRefName \ --limit 500 | jq -r --arg cutoff "$CUTOFF_DATE" '.[] | select(.state == "MERGED" or .state == "CLOSED") | select(((.mergedAt // .closedAt) | fromdateiso8601) < ($cutoff | tonumber)) | .headRefName' | sort -u) # Delete only branches that exist AND are from old PRs for branch in $EXISTING_BRANCHES; do if echo "$OLD_PR_BRANCHES" | grep -qx "$branch"; then echo "Deleting branch: $branch" gh api -X DELETE repos/${{ github.repository }}/git/refs/heads/$branch \ || echo "Failed to delete branch $branch" fi done echo "Cleanup complete."