Accept build artifact name(s) about git-release HOT 4 CLOSED

Uhm I got you, my bad!
I will add wildcard support in the next release.

As per artifacts download, it sure looks like a good addition that should be implemented.
I think the following pattern might work:

      - name: Release
        uses: docker://antonyurchenko/git-release:latest
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          DRAFT_RELEASE: "false"
          PRE_RELEASE: "false"
          CHANGELOG_FILE: "CHANGELOG.md"
          ALLOW_EMPTY_CHANGELOG: "false"
          ALLOW_TAG_PREFIX: "true"
        with:
          args: |                   # <artifact-name>:<filename-pattern>
            job1:release/app.exe    # single file from artifact
            job2:build/*.dll        # wildcard matching in an artifact
            job3:*                  # every file from an artifact
            LICENSE.md              # file from current workspace
            *.jpg                   # wildcard matching in current workspace

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I understand your point, and to be honest, I think its kind of a common need to collect artifacts from different parallel stages.

I believe that each action should take care of a certain task, and only that small task in order to be simple, generic, and reliable.

That matrix that you are describing looks like a usecase for another Action to be made 🙂 an alternative to actions/download-artifact 😉

That artifact preparing action has enough to take care of like filename collisions, multiple artifacts download, moving files around and preparing a file tree, maybe even creating archives and cleaning the GitHub Artifacts in order to lower the Packages billing, and more...

Moreover, independent action will also simplify the matrix definition as it will have clean args and env that may be used for that.

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I think you've misunderstood my request because I can't make heads nor tails of your response. 😅

My problem isn't with assembling the artifact(s), that's well taken care of and I give it for background.
The issue is that I can't tell git-release to use any artifact I've assembled.

Note that wildcards like args: "my-asset_*_.tar.gz also doesn't work. That would be another alternative to consider, but the real goal here is to get rid of download-artifact+hack.

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Unfortunately, download artifacts seems to be problematic for implementation.
The reason for that is that artifacts are not available during a workflow run through API, but only after it finishes.

Going through a code of an official actions/download-artifact, I have noticed that it uses a different API and auth.
git-release may mimic this by crafting an API calls that will look similar to:
https://pipelines.actions.githubusercontent.com/<actions-token>/_apis/pipelines/workflows/<workflow-run>/artifacts?api-version=6.0-preview
But it will break without a notice ❗

Thus, we will have to rely on other steps to prepare the files for a release, with something like:

jobs:
  job-1:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      [...]

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: linux
          path: build/linux-amd64

  job-2:
    runs-on: macos-latest
    steps:
      [...]

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: darwin
          path: build/darwin-amd64
  
  job-3:
    runs-on: windows-latest
    steps:
      [...]

      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: darwin
          path: build/windows-amd64.exe

  release:
    needs: [job-1, job-2, job-3]
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: linux
          path: artifacts
      
      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: macos
          path: artifacts
      
      - uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: windows
          path: artifacts

      - name: Release
        uses: docker://antonyurchenko/git-release:latest
        env:
          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
          CHANGELOG_FILE: none
          ALLOW_EMPTY_CHANGELOG: "true"
          ALLOW_TAG_PREFIX: "true"
        with:
          args: artifacts/build/*-amd64*

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