Upload asset to an existing release

[gutiory]

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Hello!
I have a question related to uploading an asset to an existing release.
I've followed the official docs => https://docs.github.com/en/rest/releases/assets?apiVersion=2022-11-28#upload-a-release-asset, but when I run following command:
gh api --method POST https://uploads.github.com/repos/gutiory/my-repo/releases/RELEASEID/assets\?name\=latest_slides.txt -f '@latest_slides.txt'
I'm having the following error:
field "@latest_slides.txt" requires a value separated by an '=' sign

I've also tried with
gh api --method POST https://uploads.github.com/repos/gutiory/my-repo/releases/RELEASEID/assets\?name\=latest_slides.txt -f 'name=@latest_slides.txt'
But It uploads a file called latest_slides.txt with the content @latest_slides.txt 😅

[spenserblack]

Just curious: if you're already using gh, why not use gh release upload?

[gutiory]

Thanks for your response @spenserblack! I tried gh release upload and it works great!
My goal for all of this is using this functionality in a GH Action. I was doing some tests locally outside my local clone of the repository in which I'm developing the action, so the gh release upload command was not working. (I was having the error fatal: not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git

Thank again!

PS. Despite I'm not using it anymore, I'm still courious why my gh api call does not work, even following the example that comes in the docs.

[spenserblack]

I see what you mean. I also had trouble following the documented usage using gh api, even though the other examples seem to be fine. It might be worth raising an issue at github/docs to clarify or fix the example.

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