Upload files to a GitHub release

This action allows you to select which files to upload to the just-tagged release. It runs on all operating systems types offered by GitHub.

Input variables

You must provide:

• repo_token: Usually you'll want to set this to ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}.
• file: A local file to be uploaded as the asset.
• tag: The tag to upload into. If you want the current event's tag, use ${{ github.ref }} (the refs/tags/ prefix will be automatically stripped).

Optional Arguments

• asset_name: The name the file gets as an asset on a release. Use $tag to include the tag name. When not provided it will default to the filename. This is not used if file_glob is set to true.
• file_glob: If set to true, the file argument can be a glob pattern (asset_name is ignored in this case) (Default: false)
• overwrite: If an asset with the same name already exists, overwrite it (Default: false).
• prerelease: Mark the release as a pre-release (Default: false).
• release_name: Explicitly set a release name. (Defaults: implicitly same as tag via GitHub API).
• body: Content of the release text (Defaut: "").

Output variables

• browser_download_url: The publicly available URL of the asset.

Usage

This usage assumes you want to build on tag creations only. This is a common use case as you will want to upload release binaries for your tags.

Simple example:

name: Publish

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - '*'

jobs:
  build:
    name: Publish binaries
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Build
      run: cargo build --release
    - name: Upload binaries to release
      uses: svenstaro/upload-release-action@v2
      with:
        repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        file: target/release/mything
        asset_name: mything
        tag: ${{ github.ref }}
        overwrite: true
        body: "This is my release text"

Complex example with more operating systems:

name: Publish

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - '*'

jobs:
  publish:
    name: Publish for ${{ matrix.os }}
    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
    strategy:
      matrix:
        include:
          - os: ubuntu-latest
            artifact_name: mything
            asset_name: mything-linux-amd64
          - os: windows-latest
            artifact_name: mything.exe
            asset_name: mything-windows-amd64
          - os: macos-latest
            artifact_name: mything
            asset_name: mything-macos-amd64

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Build
      run: cargo build --release --locked
    - name: Upload binaries to release
      uses: svenstaro/upload-release-action@v2
      with:
        repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        file: target/release/${{ matrix.artifact_name }}
        asset_name: ${{ matrix.asset_name }}
        tag: ${{ github.ref }}

Example with file_glob:

name: Publish
on:
  push:
    tags:
      - '*'
jobs:
  build:
    name: Publish binaries
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - name: Build
      run: cargo build --release
    - name: Upload binaries to release
      uses: svenstaro/upload-release-action@v2
      with:
        repo_token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
        file: target/release/my*
        tag: ${{ github.ref }}
        overwrite: true
        file_glob: true

Releasing

To release this Action:

• Bump version in package.json
• Create CHANGELOG.md entry
• npm run all
• git commit -am <version>
• git tag -sm <version> <version>
• git push --follow-tags
• Go to https://github.com/svenstaro/upload-release-action/releases and publish the new version