upload-pages-artifact/README.md

# upload-pages-artifact

A composite Action for packaging and uploading artifact that can be deployed to [GitHub Pages][pages].

# Scope

⚠️ Official support for building Pages with Actions is in public beta at the moment.

# Usage

See [action.yml](action.yml)

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# Artifact validation

While using this action is optional, we highly recommend it since it takes care of producing (mostly) valid artifacts.

A Pages artifact must:

- Be called `github-pages`
- Be a single [`gzip` archive][gzip] containing a single [`tar` file][tar]

The [`tar` file][tar] must:

- be under 10GB in size
- not contain any symbolic or hard links

# Release instructions

In order to release a new version of this Action:

1. Locate the semantic version of the [upcoming release][release-list] (a draft is maintained by the [`draft-release` workflow][draft-release]).

2. Publish the draft release from the `main` branch with semantic version as the tag name, _with_ the checkbox to publish to the GitHub Marketplace checked. :ballot_box_with_check:

3. After publishing the release, the [`release` workflow][release] will automatically run to create/update the corresponding the major version tag such as `v0`.

   ⚠️ Environment approval is required. Check the [Release workflow run list][release-workflow-runs].

# License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the [MIT License](LICENSE).

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[pages]: https://pages.github.com
[release-list]: https://github.com/actions/upload-pages-artifact/releases
[draft-release]: .github/workflows/draft-release.yml
[release]: .github/workflows/release.yml
[release-workflow-runs]: /actions/workflows/release.yml
[gzip]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gzip
[tar]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(computing)