Unity initializes itself in the _activate-license folder

[Phill544]

Bug description

It appears that when running game-ci/[email protected] that the Unity instance will start generating files while the working directory is still in /github/workspace/. This causes game-ci/unity-builder@v4 to fail as there are dozens of files that have been generated and it makes the branch dirty. Adding allowDirtyBuild: true does allow the app to build successfully though. As per your documentation, this is not a great solution, however.

How to reproduce

Note: This is using a professional license.

This is what my github workflow contains:

  build:
    name: Run build pipeline
    environment: production
    needs: check-runner
    runs-on: ${{ needs.check-runner.outputs.runner-label }}
    steps:
    
      # Checkout (without LFS)
      - name: Checkout repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4  
      
      # Git LFS
      - name: Create LFS file list
        run: git lfs ls-files -l | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort > .lfs-assets-id

      - name: Restore LFS cache
        uses: actions/cache@v3
        id: lfs-cache
        with:
          path: .git/lfs
          key: ${{ runner.os }}-lfs-${{ hashFiles('.lfs-assets-id') }}

      - name: Git LFS Pull
        run: |
          git lfs pull
          git add .
          git reset --hard

      # Cache
      - uses: actions/cache@v3
        with:
          path: Library
          key: Library-${{ hashFiles('Assets/**', 'Packages/**', 'ProjectSettings/**') }}
          restore-keys: |
            Library-

      # Attempt Unity activation with the first set of credentials
      - name: Unity Activation Attempt 1
        uses: game-ci/[email protected]
        env:
          UNITY_SERIAL: ${{ secrets.UNITY_SERIAL_1 }}
          UNITY_EMAIL: ${{ vars.UNITY_EMAIL_1 }}
          UNITY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.UNITY_PASSWORD_1 }}

      # Build
      - name: Build MYAPP apk
        id: buildApp
        uses: game-ci/unity-builder@v4
        with:
          targetPlatform: Android
          androidKeystoreName: MYAPP.keystore
          androidKeystoreBase64: ${{ secrets.ANDROID_KEYSTORE_BASE64 }}
          androidKeystorePass: ${{ secrets.ANDROID_KEYSTORE_PASS }}
          androidKeyaliasName: ${{ secrets.ANDROID_KEYALIAS_NAME }}
          androidKeyaliasPass: ${{ secrets.ANDROID_KEYALIAS_PASS }}
          allowDirtyBuild: true
        env:
          UNITY_SERIAL: ${{ secrets.UNITY_SERIAL_1 }}
          UNITY_EMAIL: ${{ vars.UNITY_EMAIL_1 }}
          UNITY_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.UNITY_PASSWORD_1 }}

      # Output
      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v3
        with:
          name: MYAPP-Client-${{ steps.buildApp.outputs.androidVersionCode }}
          path: build
          
          # Return License
      - name: Return license
        uses: game-ci/unity-return-license@v2
        if: always()

• Expected behavior

game-ci/unity-activate Should be able to run without dirtying the branch.

Additional details

I'm a little hesitant to share the full logs of the action as I'm unsure if it contains some sensitive information, but I will send some snippets:

1: Run game-ci/[email protected]
...
41: /usr/bin/docker run --workdir /github/workspace --rm --env UNITY_LICENSE --env UNITY_EMAIL --env UNITY_PASSWORD --env UNITY_SERIAL --env UNITY_VERSION=2019.2.11f1 --env HOME=/github/home --env GITHUB_REF --env GITHUB_SHA --env GITHUB_REPOSITORY --env GITHUB_ACTOR --env GITHUB_WORKFLOW --env GITHUB_HEAD_REF --env GITHUB_BASE_REF --env GITHUB_EVENT_NAME --env GITHUB_WORKSPACE=/github/workspace --env GITHUB_ACTION --env GITHUB_EVENT_PATH --env RUNNER_OS --env RUNNER_TOOL_CACHE --env RUNNER_TEMP --env RUNNER_WORKSPACE --volume /var/run/docker.sock:/var/run/docker.sock --volume /home/runner/work/_temp/_github_home:/github/home --volume /home/runner/work/_temp/_github_workflow:/github/workflow --volume /home/runner/work/MYAPP-Client/MYAPP-Client:/github/workspace unityci/editor:ubuntu-2019.2.11f1-base-1
42: Changing to "/github/workspace/_activate-license" directory.
43: /github/workspace/_activate-license /github/workspace
44: Requesting activation (professional license)
...
50: User [email protected] logged in successfully
102: LICENSE SYSTEM [2025120 5:33:37] Next license update check is after 2025-01-21T05:33:35
...
104: [Package Manager] Server::Start -- Port 35931 was selected

 COMMAND LINE ARGUMENTS:
/opt/unity/Editor/Unity
-batchmode
-logFile
/dev/stdout
-quit
-serial
(hidden)
-username
[email protected]
-password
(hidden)
/github/workspace/_activate-license
Using Asset Import Pipeline V1.
DisplayProgressbar: Unity Package Manager
Rebuilding Library because the asset database could not be found!
Unable to load player prefs
Loading GUID <-> Path mappings...0.000024 seconds
Loading Asset Database...0.000003 seconds
AssetDatabase consistency checks...0.000069 seconds
[Package Manager] Done resolving packages in 2.02s seconds
[Package Manager] 
Registered 40 packages:
  Packages from [https://packages.unity.com/]:
    [email protected] (location: /github/workspace/_activate-license/Library/PackageCache/[email protected])
    [email protected] (location: /github/workspace/_activate-license/Library/PackageCache/[email protected])
    [email protected] (location: /github/workspace/_activate-license/Library/PackageCache/[email protected])
    [email protected] (location: /github/workspace/_activate-license/Library/PackageCache/[email protected])
    [email protected] (location: /github/workspace/_activate-license/Library/PackageCache/[email protected])
    [email protected] (location: /github/workspace/_activate-license/Library/PackageCache/[email protected])
  Built-in packages:
    [email protected] (location: /opt/unity/Editor/Data/Resources/PackageManager/BuiltInPackages/com.unity.package-manager-ui)
    [email protected] (location: /opt/unity/Editor/Data/Resources/PackageManager/BuiltInPackages/com.unity.timeline)
    [email protected] (location: /opt/unity/Editor/Data/Resources/PackageManager/BuiltInPackages/com.unity.ugui)
140:    [email protected] (location: /opt/unity/Editor/Data/Resources/PackageManager/BuiltInPackages/com.unity.modules.ai)
...
222: Hashing assets (990 files)... 0.038 seconds
  file read: 0.009 seconds (13.467 MB)
  wait for write: 0.001 seconds (I/O thread blocked by consumer, aka CPU bound)
  wait for read: 0.002 seconds (CPUT thread waiting for I/O thread, aka disk bound)
  hash: 0.013 seconds
Updating Assets - GUID: 00000000000000001000000000000000...
 done. [Time: 11.266061 ms] 
Updating Packages/com.unity.modules.tilemap - GUID: 09e28640d754a611467eebfb261ed749...
 done. [Time: 1.830434 ms] 
Updating Packages/com.unity.modules.animation - GUID: 1158e311a3101950348dcecb1bebc42d...
232: done. [Time: 1.788685 ms] 
...
<THIS CONTINUES UNTIL THE ACTIVATE ACTION FINISHES SUCCESSFULLY>

1: Build MYAPP apk
Run game-ci/unity-builder@v4
  with:
    targetPlatform: Android
    androidKeystoreName: MYAPP.keystore
    androidKeystoreBase64: ***
    androidKeystorePass: ***
    androidKeyaliasName: ***
    androidKeyaliasPass: ***
    unityVersion: auto
    versioning: Semantic
    androidExportType: androidPackage
    androidSymbolType: none
    runAsHostUser: false
    dockerIsolationMode: default
    containerRegistryRepository: unityci/editor
    containerRegistryImageVersion: 3
    awsStackName: game-ci
    providerStrategy: local
    kubeVolumeSize: 5Gi
    watchToEnd: true
    cacheUnityInstallationOnMac: false
    dockerWorkspacePath: /github/workspace
    skipActivation: false
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Warning: Changes were made to the following files and folders:

Warning: ?? _activate-license/

Error: Branch is dirty. Refusing to base semantic version on uncommitted changes