Some minor improvements + starting to use CI/CD on itself

.forgejo/workflows/generate-release-zipfile.yml

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+on:
+  push:
+
+jobs:
+  GenerateReleaseZipfile:
+    runs-on: docker
+    container:
+      image: entrepot.xlii.si/actions/alpine-wget-git-zip:latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Generate some content
+        run: |
+          set -ex
+          mkdir toto
+          echo tata > toto/tata.txt
+          echo titi > toto/titi.txt
+          echo titi titi > "toto/titi titi.txt"
+          echo tutu > tutu.txt
+          echo tutu >> tutu.txt
+          echo tutuuuuu >> tutu2.txt
+          echo tutuuuuu >> "tutu tutu.txt"
+          echo ratata >> 'tutu tutu*.txt'
+          ls -R
+
+      - name: Testing the artifact uploading
+        id: "uploading"
+        uses: "https://entrepot.xlii.si/actions/upload-artifact-with-wget@v4"
+        with:
+          path: |
+            toto
+            tutu*
+
+      - name: Is there any output for the previous step ?
+        run: |
+          set -x
+          printf "steps.uploading.outputs.artifact-id: %s\n" "${{ steps.uploading.outputs.artifact-id }}"

.github

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+.forgejo/

README.md

@@ -12,6 +12,14 @@ the artifact uploading required a full blown NodeJS container.
 This actions won't copy all the features of the original NodeJS version but
 please report differences on the main ones.
 
+### Requirements
+
+This action needs the following executables:
+
+* zip (unless you zip the artifact yourself)
+* wget (the full version : unfortunately, as of 2024-08-26, the busybox variant isn't capable of using the PUT method)
+
+
 ### Inputs
 
 ```yaml
@@ -45,3 +53,19 @@ steps:
     name: my-artifact
     path: path/to/artifact/world.txt
 ```
+
+## Miscellaneous
+
+If you seek a similar alternative for checkout, look at https://github.com/marketplace/actions/checkout-action or use the code below :
+```yaml
+steps:
+  - name: Simple checkout
+    run: |
+      git init
+      GITHUB_AUTHENTICATED_URL="$( echo "$GITHUB_SERVER_URL" | sed "s#^\(https\?://\)#\1$GITHUB_TOKEN\@#" )"
+      git remote add origin "$GITHUB_AUTHENTICATED_URL"/"$GITHUB_REPOSITORY"
+      # Little and optional speed optimization
+      git config --local gc.auto 0
+      git fetch --no-tags --prune --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin "$GITHUB_SHA"
+      git reset --hard "$GITHUB_SHA"
+```

action.yml

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 # SPDX-License-Identifier: 0BSD
-name: "Upload artifact with wget"
+name: "Upload an artifact with wget"
-author: "Chl <chl@xlii.si>"
+author: "Chl"
 
 description: |
   Upload an artifact for a workflow.
 
-  This is a far lighter version of upload-artifact, it only need a shell, zip
+  This is a lighter version of upload-artifact, it only needs a shell, zip
   and the full version of wget (unfortunately, as of 2024-08-26, the busybox
   variant isn't capable of using the PUT method).
 
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ inputs:
     description: 'A file, directory or wildcard pattern that describes what to upload'
     required: true
   compression:
-    description: 'Set to false to upload the (already zipped) file directly. (default: true)'
+    description: 'Set to false to upload the (already zipped by yourself) file directly. (default: true)'
     default: true
   compression-level:
     description: 'The level of compression for Zlib to be applied to the artifact archive (between 0 and 9).'