fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/github/workspace'

[Stiofan]

When using a .gitattributes file (instead of a .distignore ) we got the following error when deploying the plugin:

➤ Copying files...
ℹ︎ Using .gitattributes
fatal: detected dubious ownership in repository at '/github/workspace'
To add an exception for this directory, call:

	git config --global --add safe.directory /github/workspace
tar: This does not look like a tar archive
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

This folder is not in our repo, it seems to be a github default folder so...
Our repo: https://github.com/AyeCode/google-maps-api-key

This error seems to be appearing for a few other actions recently
robotology/gh-action-nightly-merge#11
actions/checkout#766

The solution seems to be to either use the .distignore file or you need to add this to your deploy script:

# See https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/766
git config --global --add safe.directory "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE"

[Stiofan]

Any feedback on this? I can make a pull request if required? I'd prefer not to have to fork...

[DannyCooper]

I'm also getting this error, did you find a workaround @Stiofan?

[Stiofan]

I'm also getting this error, did you find a workaround @Stiofan?

Yes, add a .distignore file to your repo, and add the things you don't want to be uploaded there, this makes it skip the problematic part of the code.
Example file: https://github.com/AyeCode/invoicing/blob/master/.distignore

Hopefully, they can still fix the issue though.

[DannyCooper]

Thanks for sharing a working solution!

[musamamasood]

@Stiofan Thank you for sharing the solution and save the day.

[nielslange]

Thanks for sharing the workaround, @Stiofan! 🙌