actions-generate-checksum

Github action for generating checksum files

This is a simple Github Action that calculates the checksum of files and outputs the result into a local file. It's intended to be used in a release workflow when there is a desire to include a checksum file with the release artifacts.

Usage

The below example downloads release artifacts and generates checksums for the zip and tar archives before creating a new release.

jobs:
  release:
    name: Create release
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout sources
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: Download releaseartifacts
        uses: actions/download-artifact@v2
        with:
          name: release-artifacts
          path: release
      - name: Generate checksum
        uses: jmgilman/actions-generate-checksum@v1
        with:
          patterns: |
            release/*.zip
            release/*.tar.gz
      - name: Create release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
        with:
          files: |
            checksum.txt
            release/*.zip
            release/*.tar.gz

Options

The following options can be configured:

Key	Required	Default	Description
method	Optional	sha256	Hashing algorithm to use [md5, sha1, sha256, sha512]
output	Optional	checksum.txt	Output file path
patterns	Required	N/A	List of glob patterns to use for matching files