Delete all GitHub releases / tags

gh_delete_releases

# Install GH cli
https://github.com/cli/cli#installation

# set GH_TOKEN env var
export GH_TOKEN=<<your_PAT_with_repo_access>>



# delete releases
$ gh release list | sed 's/|/ /' | awk '{print $1, $8}' | while read -r line; do gh release delete -y "$line"; done

$ gh release # list gets a list of releases as a table.

$ sed 's/|/ /' | awk '{print $1, $8}' # singles out the first column provided by the table

$ while read -r line; do gh release delete -y "$line"; done # ran the delete command for each result

# delete remote tags 
$ git fetch
$ git tag -l | xargs -n 1 git push --delete origin

# delete local tags
git tag -d $(git tag -l)