CI: Purge beta builds on new release

[aawsome]

An ever-growing repo of beta builds increases the execution time of the CI a lot.

Idea: on release, do

rm -rf .git
git init
git remote add origin [email protected]:...
git add *
git commit -am 'new release'
git push -f origin master

[dimejo]

What about moving beta builds to a website like beta.restic.net? I would be willing to sponsor domain and hosting.

[simonsan]

Other possibility:

git checkout --orphan freshBranch
git add -A
git commit
git branch -D main 
git branch -m main 
git push -f origin main
git gc --aggressive --prune=all
git push -f origin main

[simonsan]

What about moving beta builds to a website like beta.restic.net? I would be willing to sponsor domain and hosting.

We should move the files to some other space at one point, for sure. Also, because we don't need any history of nightly builds, really. For now, I would say it's sufficient, though, as we don't have more stress with administrating that webspace. So we can always do that at a later date. Thank you for the proposal!