Action fails when triggered by a tag.

[rosiel]

We are using the FOLLOW_TAGS option and have set up our Github workflow to trigger on tag creation.

The result is, after creating tag 2.9.0,

error: pathspec '.9.0' did not match any file(s) known to git
fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref

I suspect that this is caused by line 25, git checkout "${GITHUB_REF:11}". When the GITHUB_REF is refs/heads/<branch_name> this works, but when it's refs/tags/<tag_name> it cuts the first letter off the tag name.

I think this could be solved by using $GITHUB_REF_NAME which is "The short ref name of the branch or tag that triggered the workflow run. This value matches the branch or tag name shown on GitHub. For example, feature-branch-1" Source: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/learn-github-actions/variables

[lwih]

I upvote this issue as I'm facing the same one.
@rosiel - did you find a solution?

[rosiel]

No, I'm hoping @SvanBoxel has a chance to look at this - the solution should be as simple as switching out $GITHUB_REF:11 with $GITHUB_REF_NAME.

[SvanBoxel]

Hi @rosiel. Could you test your solution and open a PR if you're confident it works? Thank you!

[SvanBoxel]

Released as pre-release: https://github.com/SvanBoxel/gitlab-mirror-and-ci-action/releases/tag/0.6