Detecting files generated by programs not only via shell

[TimMeiwald]

Hi, I'm either just being stupid or it could be an issue hence why I've just put this as a discussion in case I'm merely stupid.

I've been using this action to autocommit a coverage report generated with coverage in python. But I can only seem to get it to autocommit by using cat coverage.xml > Coverage.xml where the first file(coverage.xml) was created by coverage. For some reason autocommit won't pick up files created directly by a program(coverage in this case) as opposed to shell commands.

Is this expected behaviour? If no how would one go about getting autocommit to actually detect said file and autocommit it.

[stefanzweifel]

This is definitely not the expected behaviour.
Could it be that coverage.xml is added to your .gitignore-file?

If not, could you share your workflow or at least the options you pass to git-auto-commit? Do you use any "special" options like file_pattern or status_options?

[TimMeiwald]

It turns out you're right it was in the .gitignore. When I changed the output name it worked. The dangers of copy-pasting code. Thanks anyway

[stefanzweifel]

Can happen to anyone. Will add a note to the README about this.