publish `dist` directory as `Source code (zip)` asset instead of root

[gpspake]

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My project's build outputs assets to a dist directory. This is what I publish to NPM and it's what I'd like to publish to github.

Here's my config:

module.exports = {
    "plugins": [
        "@semantic-release/commit-analyzer",
        "@semantic-release/release-notes-generator",
        "@semantic-release/changelog",
        ["@semantic-release/npm", {
            "pkgRoot": "dist",
        }],
        "@semantic-release/github",
        "@semantic-release/git"
    ],
    "preset": "angular"
}

This works (mostly). The package is published to NPM and Github but the package that's published to Github as Source code (zip|tar.gz) is the project root, not the dist directory.

Here's an example: https://github.com/gpspake/npm-demo-shared-dependency/releases/tag/v1.1.4

@semantic-release/npm has a pkgRoot option that can be used to specify which directory to publish

["@semantic-release/npm", {
    "pkgRoot": "dist",
}],

I figured the assets option would work the same way so tried setting it to dist and dist/** but that just publishes the flat files (in addition to the compressed source from the root directory)

["@semantic-release/github", {
    "assets": "dist/**"
}],

Is there a "pkgRoot" equivalent for @semantic-release/github or an implicit way to specify that? Or am I missing some obvious reason I wouldn't need it? 🙂

[gpspake]

Here are a couple of SO threads about this: https://stackoverflow.com/q/69841763/1827642 https://stackoverflow.com/q/69872861/1827642

[ringerc]

In my case, I'd like to supress generation of the source zip and tarball entirely. That's what my git tags are for. But per this comment, they're apparently added by github not semantic-release and cannot be disabled: https://github.com/semantic-release/semantic-release/issues/1597#issuecomment-656370768

github uses git export though, so you can use .gitattributes to suppress exporting. See https://stackoverflow.com/a/58443948/398670

[ringerc]

@gpspake Looks like you can't do it; it's autogenerated by github.