With.files input doesn't work correctly when working-directory is set

[kolotaev]

Hello,

I have a simple github workflow with a working-directory specified. Obviously Action doesn't take this setting into account when searching for file(s) specified in with.files.

Actual:

• Action reports "🤔 Pattern 'Release.txt' does not match any files." and doesn't release the file(s) specified in the input.

Expected:

• Action releases file(s) specified in the input.

Example:

name: Some-name
on:
  push:
    branches:
    - master
jobs:
  build-it:
    name:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    defaults:
       run:
         working-directory: some/directory/here
    steps:
    - name: Checkout VCS
      uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Build
      run: echo ${{ github.sha }} > Release.txt
    - name: Test
      run: cat Release.txt
    - name: Release
      uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
      with:
        files: Release.txt
        tag_name: latest

[bartekpacia]

This needs urgent fix.

[whizzzkid]

Were you able to find a work-around for this?

[zihadmahiuddin]

Were you able to find a work-around for this?

For a work-around, it seems to work if I specify the path relative to the root of the project.

And for a fix, I think glob needs to be given the custom working-directory in these 2 places:
https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release/blob/master/src/util.ts#L79
https://github.com/softprops/action-gh-release/blob/master/src/util.ts#L87

[NicolasMalo]

The work-around suddenly stopped working for me. (setting the full path to the root folder)

Edit: I found a new work-around which is to move the file to the root folder and then just write the file name like files: myfile.txt

[MrLoh]

Works fine for me still to specify the full path. The action just doesn't support working-directory which is not documented either. Would be nice if it did maybe, but seems more like a feature request.

[dimitre]

for me it doesn't work if I specify global working-directory.
it doesn't find the file
if I specify the full relative path to the root, it finds the file but in the time it will copy it errors like this:

Run softprops/action-gh-release@v2.2.0
👩‍🏭 Creating new GitHub release for tag v0.0.9...
⬆️ Uploading oflib_linux64.zip...
Error: Request body length does not match content-length header

I'm supposing it checks if file exists ignoring working-directory, but for the upload phase it seems to take into consideration, so when it tries to upload, it errors with Request body length does not match content-length header.