GitHub tidy extension

The gh-tidy project is a tiny & simple extension for the standard gh cli that aims at offering tidy/cleanup operations on existing refs (in either branch, tag or PR format) by providing rules, such as stale status based on HEAD commit date for a given branch, tag, PR activity and others.

🚀 Supports:

• Enterprise and Public GitHub API endpoints are supported.
• Automatic authentication using the environment variable GITHUB_TOKEN.
• Automatic GitHub API limit handling where requests are restarted after the X-RateLimit-Reset timer expires.
• Automatic API batching to avoid unnecessary collisions with the internal API (defaults to 20).
• Listing & Deletion of branches with a stale HEAD commit based on time duration.
• Listing & Deletion of tags with a stale commit based on time duration.
• Closing of PRs with a stale branch HEAD commit based on time duration & PR state.

ℹ️ This is a utility project that I have been extending when needed on a best-effort basis. Feel free to contribute with a PR or open an Issue on GitHub!

📝 TODOs (for lack of time...):

• API:
  • Support GitHub APP pem direct authentication.
• [stale] Branches:
  • Support optional detected if the provided branch has already been merged to the repository default branch.

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Using gh-tidy

...locally or through a CI system like Jenkins, GitHub actions or any other...

0. Expose a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable with repo:read privileges or repo:admin if you wish to use the delete features. (*)
1. Install the gh cli available here.
2. Install the extension:

   $ gh extension install pcanilho/gh-tidy

   or upgrade to the latest version:

   $ gh extension upgrade pcanilho/gh-tidy

3. 🚀 Use the extension:

   $ gh tidy --help

* This can be a PAT, a GitHub App installation access_token or any other format that allows API access via Bearer token.

Note: Authentication through direct GitHub App PEM is not (yet) supported.

Usage

Examples:
$ gh tidy stale branches <owner/repo> -t 72h
$ gh tidy stale prs      <owner/repo> -t 72h -s OPEN -s MERGED
$ gh tidy stale tags     <owner/repo> -t 72h
$ gh tidy delete         <owner/repo> -t 72h --ref <branch_name> --ref <tag_name>

Flags:
  -f, --force               If specified, all interactive operations will be disabled
  -h, --help                help for stale
  -t, --threshold duration  The stale threshold value. [1 month] (default 672h0m0s)
  -s, --state stringArray   The PR state. Supported values are: OPEN, MERGED or CLOSED (default [OPEN])
      --rm                  If specified, this flag enable the removal mode of the correlated sub-command

Global Flags:
      --format string       The desired output format. Supported values are: yaml, json (default "yaml")
  -o, --owner string        The GitHub owner value. (Automatically set if the repository is given in the 'owner/repository' format

Examples

List

• List all branches with stale commits for the last 128 hours in yaml format:

  $ gh tidy stale branches <owner/repository> -t 128h -f yaml

• Filter results using jq:

  $ gh tidy <command> -f json | jq <query>

• List all PRs with stale commits for the last 128 hours, that are in OPEN state, in yaml format:

  $ gh tidy stale prs <owner/repository> -t 128h -f yaml -s OPEN

Delete

• Delete all branches with stale commits for the last 128 hours:

  $ gh tidy stale branches <owner/repository> -t 128h --rm

• Delete all branches with stale commits for the last 128 hours excluding branch names with a pattern (regex):

  $ gh tidy stale branches <owner/repository> -t 128h --exclude '<regex>' --rm

• Delete all tags with a stale ref for the last 128 hours:

  $ gh tidy stale tags <owner/repository> -t 128h --rm

Close

• Close all PRs with stale commits for the last 128 hours:

  $ gh tidy stale prs <owner/repository> -t 128h --rm