Can I symlink GitHub Actions to directories inside repo?

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I have a repo, and I have a code generator that generates GitHub Actions inside some directories.

For example:

- repo_root
  - .github/workflows
    - site.yml <= this is a relative symlink to site's build.yml
    - blog.yml <= this is a relative symlink to blog's build.yml
  - site
    - .github/workflows/build.yml
  - blog
    - .github/workflows/build.yml

I have created those symlinks, using this command and I can verify that they are correct (by cat or by ls -lah):

ln -s -f -r /repo/site/.github/workflows/build.yml /repo/.github/workflows/build.yml

However, they are not recognized in GitHub as Actions and they immediately fail.

Is it possible at all?

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1 Answers

Seems like symlinks are not processed by the GitHub Action pipeline. I have a similar need with git submodules and the pipeline immediately returns with a symlink path to the submodule's GitHub action yaml file.

Screenshot of the failure

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