action.yml

name: 'Upload Pages artifact'
description: 'A composite action that prepares your static assets to be deployed to GitHub Pages'
inputs:
  path:
    description: 'Path of the directoring containing the static assets.'
    required: true
    default: '_site/'
  retention-days:
    description: 'Duration after which artifact will expire in days.'
    required: false
    default: '1'
runs:
  using: composite
  steps:
    - name: Archive artifact
      shell: bash
      run: |
        tar \
          --dereference --hard-dereference \
          --directory ${{ inputs.path }} \
          -cvf ${{ runner.temp }}/artifact.tar \
          --exclude=.git \
          .
    - name: Upload artifact
      uses: actions/upload-artifact@main
      with:
        name: github-pages
        path: ${{ runner.temp }}/artifact.tar
        retention-days: ${{ inputs.retention-days }}