Attach generated artifacts to the release even if there's no version prefix

[s3rius]

Thanks for creating such an amazing projects to ease releases. But I want to have an ability to attach artifacts to releases even if tag name doesn't start with v prefix.

There are two ways for resolving this issue:

1. Create an output of an archive name, so users can upload those archives to release workflows.
2. Make "v" prefix optional and trigger releases every time unless explicitly stated otherwise.

This issue happens because of 2 factors:

• I like create releases from github web UI.
• I don't have v prefix on my tags.

All my actions trigger on release:

on:
  release:
    types:
      - released

[autarch]

I'm a bit confused by what you're asking for. Do you want to do a release on every single workflow run? I haven't tried this, but I think if you set the release-tag-prefix to an empty string, that would achieve that.

But if you just want to upload build artifacts for each workflow run, you don't need a release. You just need the upload-artifact action.

[s3rius]

Yes. But there's a catch. I cannot set prefix to an empty string, because it throws an error:

I want my built binaries to appear as an asset on my release page.

actions/upload-artifact creates artifacts and uploads them as workflow artifacts. Those uploads are different form release assets and won't appear on the release page. In order for them to be there, we can only use softprops/action-gh-release. In case if release already exists, it will just upload assets and won't try to create a new release.

I'd want this job to create a release each time it runs, because my on clause actually only triggers when release is already created.

Also, I don't want to name my tags with any prefix. Just plain version string.

In case if you want to simulate current behaviour and only run on tags that start with v, you can just use proper on directive.

on:
  push:
    tags:
      - v*

So, considering all the above. I can make PR with any of the following changes:

• Add a new output where I have path to built archive which I can upload as a release asset using softprops/action-gh-release;
• Add an option to trigger release and artifact upload regardless of tag name;
• Allow release-tag-prefix to be empty.

[autarch]

Ah, right, I forgot about that validation code. I don't want to remove that validation, since I'd expect that setting this to an empty tag would probably be a mistake for most users.

One option, which I think would work well, is to change this action so it takes a regex for release tags. Then you could just supply .*. That wouldn't be too hard to implement, I think.

[s3rius]

Okay. It will work in my case. Thanks for suggestion. I still think that actions should not decide on the workflow with such strict rules.

If user want to release, they can either filter out with regex in on clause or supply a boolean variable to enable or disable particular steps of the action.