Delete Release If Exists

A Forgejo Action that deletes a release by name if it exists. Useful for cleaning up pre-releases before recreating them in CI pipelines.

Usage

- uses: actions/delete-release-if-exists@v1
  with:
    token: ${{ secrets.FORGEJO_TOKEN }}
    name: nightly

Inputs

Input	Description	Required	Default
token	Forgejo API token	Yes	—
name	Name of the release to delete	Yes	—
dry_run	If true, list matching releases without deleting them	No	false

Example workflow

name: Nightly release

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 2 * * *'

jobs:
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Delete old releases
        uses: https://git.deditoolbox.fr/actions/delete-release-if-exists@v1.1.0
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          name: ${{ needs.versioning.outputs.version }}
          dry_run: false

      - name: Create new nightly release
        # ...

Development

Prerequisites

• Node.js 24+
• pnpm

Install dependencies

pnpm install

Build

pnpm package

Local testing

Copy .env.example to .env, fill in the required values, then run:

pnpm local

This uses @github/local-action to simulate a workflow run locally.