GitHub action that can be used to create release archive using zip or tar.

It works on all platforms: Linux, MacOS and Windows.

An example workflow config:

name: Create Archive
on: [push]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: Archive Release
      uses: thedoctor0/zip-release@main
      with:
        type: 'zip'
        filename: 'release.zip'
        exclusions: '*.git* /*node_modules/* .editorconfig'

The generated archive will be placed as specified by directory, path and filename. If you want to attach it to the latest release use another action like ncipollo/release-action:

- name: Upload Release
  uses: ncipollo/release-action@v1
  with:
    artifacts: "release.zip"
    token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}

Default: release.zip

The filename for the generated archive, relative to directory.

If you use type: tar it's recommended to set the filename to a tar.gz (the tarball is always gzip compressed).

Default: .

The working directory where the zip or tar actually runs.

Default: .

The path to the files or directory that should be archived, relative to directory.

Default: zip

Either zip or tar.

Defines if either a ZIP-file is created, or a tar archive (the latter gzipped).

On Windows platform 7zip is used to zip files as zip command is not available there.

Default: none

List of excluded files or directories.

Please note: this handles slightly differently, depending on if you use type: zip or type: tar.

ZIP requires you to specify wildcards or full filenames.

TAR allows you to specify only the filename, no matter if it's in a subdirectory.

Default: none

Alternative to exclusions that allows you to specify a list of recursive wildcards. Only applies to type: zip on Windows where 7zip is used.

For example:

exclusions: *.txt will only exclude files ending with .txt

recursive_exclusions: *.txt will exclude files ending with .txt in any subdirectory.