[BUG] How to run only in a specific directory of a project? about prettier_action HOT 5 OPEN

@mfn You can search for working_directory in this repo to find out how it is used. It works just like you think: It's used to cd into that directory and that's it. Your problem may be elsewhere.

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@markstos thank you, good point!

But looking a few lines above, isn't the issue the the action changes into its own action directory first so working_directory is relative to that and not to the project being checked out?

So relative paths are relative to this action and would make sense why something like working_directory: subdir/ won't work, as GITHUB_ACTION_PATH is documented being

The path where an action is located. This property is only supported in composite actions. You can use this path to access files located in the same repository as the action. For example, /home/runner/work/_actions/repo-owner/name-of-action-repo/v1.

vs. what this action documents (emphasis mine):

Specify a directory to cd into before installing prettier and running it, use relative file path to the repository root for example app/

Can't make sense why my version with the absolute path wouldn't work though.

I'd say that, for relative paths, at least that's unexpected / a bug somewhere?

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If the "working_directory" is not resolved relative to the project root, that seems like a bug to me.

I ran into my own path-related problem with a file-not-found error that doesn't tell me which file is not found. Nice tool, but still some rough edges here.

#91

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Desired behavior is for working_directory to be relative to root project dir, basically wherever the .git directory is.

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Anyone who lands here, might be worth checking my comment at #94 (comment)

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