Checkout: Providing `with.path` does nothing

[tsal]

jobs:
  handle_labels:
    if: contains(github.event.label.name, 'build-for-integration')
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Checkout
      uses: actions/checkout@master
      with:
        repository: ${{ 'private-org/github-actions' }}
        token: ${{ secrets.GH_TOKEN }}
        fetch-depth: 1
        ref: 'v1'
        path: ./github-actions
    - name: Check local directory structure
      run: |
        cd github-actions

Results in:

/home/runner/work/_temp/{hash}.sh: line 1: cd: github-actions: No such file or directory
##[error]Process completed with exit code 1.

removing / adding ./ in various combination has no effect; in addition, providing the full workspace path / variable gives the dreaded "rooted path" error.

[repinel]

Running into a similar issue. The checkout steps seems to succeed, but the following steps cannot find the path where the repository were supposed to have been checked out.

[kf6kjg]

It's because the workspace, aka the CWD of all subsequent steps, is changed automatically to the path given.

My intuition said that with.path would check out into a folder at the given location. No, instead it creates the folder and then _replaces_ the workspace folder with that new folder - wiping out anything you had in there before. Had to determine this empirically, and it's very frustrating as my build system requires a library to be downloaded in a folder that is a sibling of the checked out folder - and I wan to cache said library.

[macgills]

Has the functionality changed? In my build I check out the repo the yml is in and then clone a different repo which runs and then I guess just chucks it into nothingness because I am left with only the original repo after running an ls

[ericsciple]

actions/checkout@v1 path rules are a little bit complex:

• if you specify path, and checkout the main repo (the one that kicked off the workflow) then github.workspace moves to follow wherever the repo gets checked out
• if you specify path foo, and checkout some other repo then it is placed on disk at ${{ github.workspace }}/../foo

early next week i'm planning to publish actions/checkout@v2 (PR) which will simplify the rules:

• path is always rooted against github.workspace

[ericsciple]

@tsal i'm going to go ahead and close this issue (see path rules above). let me know if any remaining issue

fyi, master currently reflects v2-beta. try it out and let me know what you think. waiting for a little bit of feedback/stabilization period then will release v2 tag

[ericsciple]

published v2 tag