Rollback a released version of the Lift Button

How-to roll back a released version of the Lift Button software.

To reset the history of a GitHub repository and delete all releases, you can follow the steps below:

Table of Contents

  1. Generate a Personal Access Token (PAT)
  2. Delete all releases from the GitHub repository
  3. Delete all tags from a GitHub repository
  4. Reset remote branch to a previous commit

Generate a Personal Access Token (PAT)

To interact with the GitHub API, you need to generate a Personal Access Token (PAT) with the necessary permissions.

  1. Generate a Personal Access Token (PAT):
    • Go to your GitHub account settings.
    • Navigate to “Developer settings” > “Personal access tokens”.
    • Click on “Generate new token”.
    • Provide necessary permissions (at least repo scope), and generate the token.

    Make sure to copy it as you won’t be able to see it again.

  2. Set the Personal Access Token as an environment variable:

      export TOKEN="your_personal_access_token_here"

Delete all releases from the GitHub repository

To delete all releases from a GitHub repository, you can use the GitHub API. Here are the steps:

OWNER="ibanFR"
REPO="semantic-versioning-kata"

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $TOKEN" \
  "https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/releases" \
| grep '"id":' | awk '{print $2}' | tr -d ',' \
| while read id; do
    echo "Deleting release $id"
    curl -s -X DELETE -H "Authorization: token $TOKEN" \
      "https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/releases/$id"
  done

Delete all tags from a GitHub repository

To delete all tags from a GitHub repository using the GitHub API, you can run the following script:

OWNER="ibanFR"
REPO="semantic-versioning-kata"

curl -s -H "Authorization: token $TOKEN" \
"https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/tags" \
| grep '"name":' \
| awk -F '"' '{print $4}' \
| while read tag; do
echo "Deleting tag $tag"
curl -s -X DELETE \
-H "Authorization: token $TOKEN" \
"https://api.github.com/repos/$OWNER/$REPO/git/refs/tags/$tag"
done

Reset remote branch to a previous commit

To reset the remote branch to a previous commit, follow these steps:

  1. Find the commit hash:

     git log

  2. Reset to the previous commit:

     git reset --hard 59e5056b4fe8c14665fa7949ab1e881ffcda3c97

  3. Force push to remote:

     git push origin HEAD --force

  4. Enter Username and Password (Personal Access Token) when prompted:

     Username for 'https://github.com': ibanFR
 Password for 'https://ibanFR@github.com': 
 Total 0 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0
 To https://github.com/ibanFR/semantic-versioning-kata.git
  + 9cb8bb8...c5e64bb HEAD -> main (forced update)