[feat req] Non-zip artifacts

[cnlohr]

What would you like to be added?

It may already be possible, but I can't figure out how to do it. For a variety of reasons, I would find it very useful if we could upload non-zip artifacts.

Why is this needed?

For instance:

1. It would be possible to upload an image on-commit with information about the specific build that outlines details about the repo's current state.
2. If I want to upload a .zip file, I don't want it double-zipped.
3. Artifacts can be used by embedded devices to update, whereas zipped files are hard to deal with on embedded devices.

[theogravity]

This is important for uploading Linux AppImage files:

https://docs.appimage.org/packaging-guide/distribution.html#do-not-put-appimages-into-other-archives

[MohabMohie]

++ same concern for double zipping files
and also if I want to attach log files or html files and easily access them from a mobile device :)

[Hainguyen1210]

Here is my use case. I want to generate the file openapi.json, if I have the link to the file in plain, I can directly use https://redocly.github.io/redoc/ to load the API spec.

[plauche]

++ Would love to see this. I'm using this action to quickly bundle up tooling directories, and since permissions are erased by the action I find myself creating archives of the directories. Which are then zipped up by the action so my users must extract the artifacts twice.

[flywire]

Support simply renaming the zip file extension without zipping it again so the artifact can be opened as a document.

Eg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument

The Open Document Format for Office Applications (ODF), also known as OpenDocument, standardized as ISO 26300, is an open file format for word processing documents, spreadsheets, presentations and graphics and using ZIP-compressed[6] XML files.

[JamesAllsopp]

This really needs adding. I use a flow to build a pdf from latex. I could view this directly in my browser if it hadn't been zipped.

[cnlohr]

For me it is primarily for something very similar, in that it would be very helpful to output a .svg or .png that contains detailed information about the build.

[c92s]

+1 from me too, I would like to upload test reports in HTML format, which could then viewed directly in the browser.

[qaniere]

• 1 from me to, would be great to view files from the browser

[Mitkee]

In most of my workflows, I have test reports generated in HTML formats. While it's nice that I -can- upload the reports, opening them from a ZIP archive is quite tedious.

If the concern is for size of uploads here negatively affecting performance, perhaps we could limit non-zipped uploads to be say <= 5Mb in size? Alternatively, could we get some sort of convenience function to just open the unzipped file straight in the browser without having to go through the unzip step?

[mpeysakhov-PTC]

Generating a tarpaulin.html coverage report but cannot give direct link to it since it is zipped.