tar fails with current directory, reporting "file changed as we read it"

[Chaoya Li]

This problem is due to tar command itself. Running and saving file in the current directory will simply reproduce this problem:

$ tar czvf test.tar.gz .  # tar: .: file changed as we read it

Neither --exclude=test.tar.gz nor --ignore-failed-read works.

The only workaround is to save tar file in an excluded dir, like this

$ mkdir -p github-release
$ tar --exclude=github-release -czvf github-release/test.tar.gz .

So as for this action, it could be written like this (if you want to use tar)

name: Create Archive
on: [push]
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - name: Create release folder
      run: mkdir -p github-release

    - uses: actions/checkout@master
    - name: Archive Release
      uses: thedoctor0/zip-release@0.7.1
      with:
        type: 'tar'
        filename: 'github-release/release.tar.gz'
        exclusions: 'github-release .git'