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: $CUTOFF_DATE" gh pr list \ --state all \ --base main \ --json number,state,mergedAt,closedAt,headRefName \ --limit 500 | jq -r '.[] | select(.state == "MERGED" or .state == "CLOSED") | .headRefName' | sort -u | while read -r branch; do # Schutz case "$branch" in main|master|develop) echo "Skipping protected branch: $branch" continue ;; esac echo "Checking if branch still exists: $branch" if gh api -X GET repos/${{ github.repository }}/git/refs/heads/$branch 2>/dev/null; then CLOSED_OR_MERGED_TS=$(date -d "$branch" +%s 2>/dev/null || date +%s) if [ "$CLOSED_OR_MERGED_TS" -lt "$CUTOFF_DATE" ]; then echo "Deleting branch: $branch" gh api \ -X DELETE \ repos/${{ github.repository }}/git/refs/heads/$branch \ || echo "Failed to delete branch $branch" else echo "Keeping branch: $branch (recent)" fi else echo "Branch $branch does not exist (already deleted)" fi done