Action nxtlvlsoftware/tar-ops-action

GitHub action for running tar operations in actions workflows.

Action Input	Required	Default	Description
operation	true		Specifies the tar operation to run. Options are: compress (alias = c) OR extract (alias = x)
files	true		Specifies the files to compress OR a single tar archive to extract. List syntax supported (see example below.)
outPath	true		Specifies the output tar file OR the directory to extract files to.
cwd	false	action working dir	Specifies the current working directory for operations (will be prepended to files and outPath if they're not absolute.)

How to use

Simple tar archive creation and artifact upload:

name: My Workflow
on: [push]
jobs:
  create-archive:
    name: tar
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: nxtlvlsoftware/tar-ops-action@v1
        with:
          operation: compress
          files: |
            My-Repo/index.ts
            My-Repo/src
            My-Repo/node_modules
          outPath: My-Repo-Sources.tar.gz
      - name: Upload artifacts
        uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: My-Repo-Sources-Compressed
          path: My-Repo-Sources.tar.gz
          retention-days: 1

Then download and extract your archive in another run step:

name: My Workflow 2
on: [push]
jobs:
  setup-php:
    name: tar extract
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Download all artifacts from this action run
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v3
        with:
          path: ./
      - uses: nxtlvlsoftware/tar-ops-action@v1
        with:
          operation: extract
          files: ./My-Repo-Sources.tar.gz
          outPath: ./My-Repo-Sources

Use cases

Allows checking-out your repo, running dependency management commands, code linting and other build/compile time steps, then re-using the processed code across multiple steps without running all the prerequisites again.

License

nxtlvlsoftware/tar-ops-action is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license.