[CY-3681] Can't specify absolute path

[IntelBear]

I'm trying to use this action and providing a directory to start from as seen in the documentation, but it's unable to accept absolute path that I'm giving by passing in ${{ github.ref }}/src (src is at the top level of my repo). What's the proper syntax to pass an absolute path into the directory option?

[github-actions]

Internal ticket created : CY-3681

[josemiguelmelo]

Hi @IntelBear ,

Our codacy-analysis-cli is expecting the directory to be the root of the repository. So, passing a folder that is not the root of your repository to the directory parameter will make the CLI fail.

Also, it seems the environment variable that contains the workspace directory path is GITHUB_WORKSPACE (https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/environment-variables).

[josemiguelmelo]

Hi!
I'm closing the issue. Feel free to re-open it if you need any more help on this 🙂
Thanks,

[gjermundgaraba]

Does the directory parameter make any sense then for the github action? If not, might be good to document under "Extra configurations".