GitHub action that can be used to create release archive using zip or tar.

It works on all platforms: Linux, MacOS and Windows.

An example workflow config:

name: Create Archive
on: [push]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: Archive Release
      uses: thedoctor0/[email protected]
      with:
        type: 'zip'
        filename: 'release.zip'
        exclusions: '*.git* /*node_modules/* .editorconfig'

The generated archive will be placed as specified by directory, path and filename. If you want to attach it to the latest release use another action like ncipollo/release-action:

- name: Upload Release
  uses: ncipollo/[email protected]
  with:
    artifacts: "release.zip"
    token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Default: release.zip

The filename for the generated archive, relative to directory.

If you use type: tar it's recommended to set the filename to a tar.gz (the tarball is always gzip compressed).

Default: .

The working directory where the zip or tar actually runs.

Default: .

The path to the files or directory that should be archived, relative to directory.

Path with whitespace is currently not supported because of the limitation of GitHub actions regarding the parameter formatting (no YAML double quoting). A solution based on similar issues will soon be implemented.

Default: zip

Either zip or tar or 7z.

Defines if either a ZIP-file is created, or a tar archive (the latter gzipped).

On Windows platform 7zip is used to zip files as zip command is unavailable there.

Default: none

List of excluded files or directories.

Please note: this handles slightly differently, depending on if you use type: zip or type: tar.

ZIP requires you to specify wildcards or full filenames.

TAR allows you to specify only the filename, no matter if it's in a subdirectory.

Default: none

Alternative to exclusions that allows you to specify a list of recursive wildcards. Only applies to type: zip on Windows where 7zip is used.

For example:

exclusions: *.txt will only exclude files ending with .txt

recursive_exclusions: *.txt will exclude files ending with .txt in any subdirectory.

Default: none

Provide any custom parameters to the zipping command.

For example:

custom: --ignore-failed-read option used with tar command, which allows to ignore and continue on unreadable files.

Default: none

An extra command that will run before zipping.

For example:

command: "mkdir -p release" can be used to create a directory where the archived file can be stored to fix tar issue with file changed as we read it error