Annotations in job log lack location information

[thompson-tomo]

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When we are looking at job log which contains annotations as defined in https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/workflows-and-actions/workflow-commands#setting-a-warning-message, both the job log & raw log lack location information for the warning.

This is resulting in some developers generate duplicate logs (1 as an annotation & 1 not), some duplicate location context into body & others don’t do anything.

When rendering logs with annotations, in pretty view the annotation should be rendered as a link & in raw view it should be rendered as it was logged.

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[benogoulart]

I agree this would be a valuable improvement.

Including file and line information directly in the job log would make annotations much more useful, especially when reviewing long logs or downloading the raw output. Right now, action authors often have to duplicate location information in the log message itself, which leads to unnecessary noise.

Rendering the annotation as a clickable link in the formatted log while preserving the original workflow command in the raw log seems like a sensible approach and would improve the debugging experience without changing existing behavior.