From 6280c9bd57ea275600ff30bb70e777d88e8b7905 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: MMarcus95 <marco.marchitto@iit.it>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2026 17:18:35 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix clean release

---
 .github/workflows/cleanup-temp-releases.yml | 59 +++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/cleanup-temp-releases.yml b/.github/workflows/cleanup-temp-releases.yml
index 098f2ca..aa38e05 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cleanup-temp-releases.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cleanup-temp-releases.yml
@@ -36,33 +36,58 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Delete all temporary releases and tags for merged branch
         run: |
-          PREFIX="temp-${SAFE_BRANCH}-v"
+          set -euo pipefail
 
-          echo "Looking for releases with prefix: $PREFIX"
+          PREFIX="temp-${SAFE_BRANCH}-v"
 
-          RELEASE_TAGS="$(
-            gh release list \
-              --limit 1000 \
-              --json tagName \
-              --jq '.[] | .tagName | select(test("^'"${PREFIX}"'[0-9]+$"))'
+          echo "Repository: ${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}"
+          echo "Looking for temp releases with prefix: ${PREFIX}"
+
+          gh api \
+            --paginate \
+            "repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/releases" \
+            --jq '.[] | [.id, .tag_name] | @tsv' \
+            > releases.tsv
+
+          echo "All release tags currently visible:"
+          cut -f2 releases.tsv || true
+
+          MATCHES="$(
+            awk -v prefix="$PREFIX" '
+              BEGIN { prefix_len = length(prefix) }
+              index($2, prefix) == 1 {
+                suffix = substr($2, prefix_len + 1)
+                if (suffix ~ /^[0-9]+$/) {
+                  print $1 "\t" $2
+                }
+              }
+            ' releases.tsv
           )"
 
-          if [ -z "$RELEASE_TAGS" ]; then
-            echo "No temporary releases found for branch: $BRANCH_NAME"
+          if [ -z "$MATCHES" ]; then
+            echo "No matching temporary releases found for branch: ${BRANCH_NAME}"
+            echo "Expected tags like: ${PREFIX}1, ${PREFIX}2, ${PREFIX}3"
             exit 0
           fi
 
-          echo "Found temporary releases:"
-          echo "$RELEASE_TAGS"
+          echo "Matching releases to delete:"
+          echo "$MATCHES"
 
-          echo "$RELEASE_TAGS" | while IFS= read -r TAG; do
-            if [ -z "$TAG" ]; then
+          echo "$MATCHES" | while IFS="$(printf '\t')" read -r RELEASE_ID TAG; do
+            if [ -z "$RELEASE_ID" ] || [ -z "$TAG" ]; then
               continue
             fi
 
-            echo "Deleting release and tag: $TAG"
+            echo "Deleting release id=${RELEASE_ID}, tag=${TAG}"
+
+            gh api \
+              --method DELETE \
+              "repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/releases/${RELEASE_ID}"
+
+            echo "Deleting git tag ref: ${TAG}"
 
-            gh release delete "$TAG" \
-              --yes \
-              --cleanup-tag
+            gh api \
+              --method DELETE \
+              "repos/${GITHUB_REPOSITORY}/git/refs/tags/${TAG}" \
+              || echo "Tag ${TAG} was already deleted or did not exist"
           done
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