GitHub CLI cheat sheet

github_cli_tips.sh

## Install (MacOS); Check version is >= 2.43 as the --json option was added in https://github.com/cli/cli/pull/8474
brew install gh 
gh --version

## Run in repo root...

# Browse drafts
gh release list --limit 25 --json tagName,createdAt,isDraft

# List drafts older than 1 week (tags only, oldest first)
gh release list --limit 25 --json tagName,createdAt,isDraft --jq 'reverse | .[] | select(.isDraft and ((.createdAt | fromdateiso8601) < now - (7*24*60*60))) | .tagName' 

# Delete old drafts: pipe the tags to `gh release delete`, one-by-one (asks confirmation for each)
gh release list --limit 25 --json tagName,createdAt,isDraft --jq 'reverse | .[] | select(.isDraft and ((.createdAt | fromdateiso8601) < now - (7*24*60*60))) | .tagName' | xargs -p -n 1 gh release delete