Composite GitHub Action that solves for a shortcoming of the current upload-artifact action, in which any artifacts downloaded lose their file privileges (namely, execution privilege).

This action will first tar any files or folders at the provided path input into an artifact.tar at the root of the GHA environment. Then actions/upload-artifact@v2 is used directly to artifact the tar file. Once completed, this action will clean itself up by removing the artifact.tar file.

Utilize the sibling action at download-tartifact to download the artifact and extract your files.

Note: The path provided will be maintained through tar, so after download-tartifact, any subfolder structure will remain intact.