Release notes fail to generate when used from a reusable workflow

[herebebeasties]

GitHub has reusable workflow support:
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/reusing-workflows#calling-a-reusable-workflow

However if you embed this action in a reusable workflow, the release notes step does not work:

👩‍🏭 Creating new GitHub release for tag v1.0.0...
🤔  not include valid file.

The reusable workflow has:

      - name: Release
        uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
        if: ${{ success() && startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v') }}
        with:
          generate_release_notes: true

[adam-grant-hendry]

The same issue occurs for tags. Reused workflows don't see generated tags (i.e. git describe --tags fails): workflow run.

[adam-grant-hendry]

The same issue occurs for tags. Reused workflows don't see generated tags

Actually, this looks like it was due to the fetch-depth of actions/checkout. Once I used:

- name: Checkout
   uses: actions/checkout@v4
   with:
     # See: https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/206
     # See: https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/1471
     fetch-depth: 0
     fetch-tags: true

it worked.

@herebebeasties Since your step checks for tags (startsWith(github.ref, 'refs/tags/v')), do you checkout tags? By default, actions/checkout uses fetch-depth: 1 and doesn't check out tags.

Unfortunately, the fetch-tags option doesn't currently work by itself (see actions/checkout #1471), so you have to use fetch-depth: 0 and fetch-tags or possibly running git fetch --prune --unshallow --tags prior to your Release step (see actions/checkout #206).

[herebebeasties]

Ah ha! I was indeed missing the fetch-tags (I had the fetch-depth already). 🙄
Adding that fixes it. Thank you!