[enhancement]: Upload files with their names

[kittaakos]

Inspired by this.

I am not sure if this is possible at all as the artifacts are zipped, but I would like to upload files with their names. With Azure, it is possible to upload a directory and all artifacts will have their original file name.

Azure config:

 - task: PublishBuildArtifacts@1
    inputs:
      pathtoPublish: path/to/dir/with/artifacts/created/by/the/previous/task/
      artifactName: 'Arduino Pro IDE - Applications'
    displayName: Publish

Azure artifacts:

I have shamelessly copied your code 😊, modified it a bit, and set up another GH action that tries to demonstrate what I would consider a useful upload-feature. See here: https://github.com/kittaakos/upload-artifact-as-is

What do you think? Thanks for your time!

[kittaakos]

Just for completeness, I created a GH action with upload/artifact and upload/artifact-as-is.

upload/artifact without name specified:

upload/artifact-as-is:

The latter is closer to what Azure provides.

[konradpabjan]

That's a pretty ingenious action! 😀 It's open source! It's meant to be forked and modified so you can do whatever you want.

I would throw this into the bucket of "we need better UI". If you click on one of your zip artifacts for example you will still get a zip of a zip (which is super annoying). In the artifacts UI for Azure DevOps you can browse everything, there is a nested directory structure you get the size. We want to get to the same point for GitHub actions.

If a user has only a few files in their artifact (4 in your example) with no nested structure then I could see this being a viable option. However... artifacts tend to have a some sort of directory structure and i think your action would pretty much ignore it. The UI will also only display 100 artifacts (100 files in your case). If someone for example uploaded node_modules with you action, things would quickly start to 🧨🔥

When we currently upload artifacts with actions/upload-artifact we actually upload each file individually one-by-one without any zipping during upload. The single zip that is later available for download is just a UI limitation where everything gets thrown together into a single file because we don't support downloading and browsing files individually (yet).

[kittaakos]

Thank you, @konradpabjan!

I would throw this into the bucket of "we need better UI".

I agree. Ideally, I want to browse the files the same way I can do it on Azure (without maintaining my super-naive GH Action customization).

example you will still get a zip of a zip (which is super annoying)

Yes, I have noticed.

We want to get to the same point for GitHub actions.

Is there a GH issue for that, was it already added to some roadmap on your side? Can you share a link if there is such an enhancement ticket? I want to close this issue and track that instead.

[konradpabjan]

Internally we are tracking this (please be aware there are a lot of other things we are working on that take priority over such a bug feature). Nothing so far on our public roadmap so I can't give any ETA on when this might come around.

The closest thing to a UI update is this issue which I recommend following: #14

[kittaakos]

The closest thing to a UI update is this issue which I recommend following: #14

👍

Closing.