action cleanup

[folibis]

The action doesn't remove a repository after workflow finished so repository just takes up space on the server in case of self-hosted runner used. This is can be critical when using big/multiples repositories. Especially it doesn't make sense because the action deletes the repository on startup. I guess that action should provide an option to delete the repo after workflow finished.

[altjx]

Any updates on this by chance? Anyone figure out an alternative? I added a "last step cleanup" process, but seems like it breaks this action.

[Nikschavan]

Is there any alternative available for this at least? this is adding maintenance burden on the self-hosted runners where previously cloned repos keep taking up space

[anthonysidesap]

it is cleaned up , anthony j sides

[Nikschavan]

I noticed that, in my case most of the space was taken by _temp directory which was not getting automatically cleared.
It turned out that the cleanup was failing because of permissions, I removed the actions service and added it as a root user - actions/runner#529 (comment) which fixed the issue for me.

[gavintg]

Yeah, this is a thing, would prefer a flag for git clean -x -f -d