Another GitHub action for uploading release artifacts

Uploads artifacts from a GitHub action into a GitHub release.

Optionally creates the release if it doesn't exist.

Usage

Example usage with an intermediate build artifacts stage:

on:
  push:
    tags: "*"
name: Build & Release
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: build
      run: ./build.sh
    - name: upload artifacts
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3.1.0
      with:
        name: artifacts
        path: build/*
        if-no-files-found: warn
        retention-days: 1
  release:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    needs: [build]
    permissions:
      contents: write
    steps:
    - name: download artifacts
      uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
      with:
        name: artifacts
    - name: create release
      uses: swisstxt/github-action-release-artifacts@main
      with:
        tag: ${{ github.ref_name }}
        create_release: true
        release_name: "my project ${{ github.ref_name }}"
      permissions:
        contents: write

Inputs

• files - List of files or paths to upload, separated by space. Upload all files in the workspace if missing. The paths are treated as workspace-relative.
• tag - Create a release from a specific tag. If missing, try to derive it from the current job's commit ID.
• create_release - If false, fails when the release doesn't exist. If true and the release doesn't exist, it is created automatically.
• release_name - When creating a new release, use the value of this input as the release name. Otherwise, use the name of the tag.
• create_draft - When creating a release, specifies if a normal (false) or draft (true) release should be created. Ignored when not creating a release.

Note: If you use the create_draft option, a new draft release will be created on every run. Without the option, assets will be uploaded into an existing release.

Notes

This action uses an Alpine Linux build container and does all its work with busybox, curl and jq.

GitHub uploads can sometimes fail on the first attempt. If this happens, retry the release step on your Action until all artifacts have been uploaded.

Acknowledgments + Legal

Copyright © 2022 SWISS TXT AG - All rights reserved

Released under the MIT license. See the LICENSE file for details.

Based on: github:Roang-zero1/github-upload-release-artifacts-action

With ideas from: gist:stefanbuck/ce788fee19ab6eb0b4447a85fc99f447