Markdown Table output is "off"

[sysadmiral]

Describe the bug

The produced markdown table has the normal separators on line 2 but the output isn't quite right and so the markdown doesn't render.

This is the outputted column headers and the separators on line 2:

| Repository URL | Days Inactive | Last Push Date | Visibility | Days Since Last Release | Days Since Last PR |
| --- | --- | --- | ---: | ---: |

There are only five columns in line 2 which is less than the six column headers and there are some unecessary colons in the output.

To Reproduce

Not sure. I've setup the workflow to pass the output to the create-issue-from-file action so I'm hoping the output isn't being altered somehow.

Here is my redacted workflow:

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron:  '30 5 * * 4' # 0530 on a thursday

name: Run the stale-repos report

permissions:
    contents: read

jobs:
  build:
    name: stale repo identifier
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest

    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@692973e3d937129bcbf40652eb9f2f61becf3332 # v4

    - name: Run stale_repos tool
      uses: github/stale-repos@ba84f4865211804e46c78d401815ae722ce6a498 # v1
      env:
        GH_APP_ID: ${{ secrets.APP_ID }}
        GH_APP_INSTALLATION_ID: ${{ secrets.APP_INSTALLATION_ID }}
        GH_APP_PRIVATE_KEY: ${{ secrets.APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}
        ORGANIZATION: ${{ secrets.ORGANIZATION }}
        INACTIVE_DAYS: 180
        ACTIVITY_METHOD: "pushed"
        ADDITIONAL_METRICS: "release,pr"

    - name: Generate a token
      id: generate-token
      uses: actions/create-github-app-token@ad38cffc07bac6e3857755914c4c88bfd2db4da4 # v1
      with:
        app-id: ${{ secrets.APP_ID }}
        private-key: ${{ secrets.APP_PRIVATE_KEY }}

    - name: Check for the stale report issue
      run: |
        ISSUE_NUMBER=$(gh search issues "Stale repository report" --match title --json number --jq ".[0].number")
        echo "issue_number=$ISSUE_NUMBER" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"
      env:
        GH_TOKEN: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}

    - name: Create issue
      uses: peter-evans/create-issue-from-file@24452a72d85239eacf1468b0f1982a9f3fec4c94 # v5
      with:
        issue-number: ${{ env.issue_number }}
        title: Stale repository report
        content-filepath: ./stale_repos.md
        token: ${{ steps.generate-token.outputs.token }}

Expected behavior

The columns in the markdown are the same number on each row.

Screenshots

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Additional context

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[sysadmiral]

Some additional checking I did was to upload the produced md file as an artifact and after downloading I can confirm that the issue is in the produced output and nothing is altering the file after the fact.

[zkoppert]

Thanks for opening this and confirming that things aren't being altered afterward. I'll take a look at this. 👀

[zkoppert]

@sysadmiral Please let me know if this has corrected things for your specific configuration or not. Testing in this area isn't as comprehensive as I'd like. I'll get back to fixing that part later.

[sysadmiral]

Will test as soon as a new version gets published and renovatebot updates our actions. Thanks for the quick fix!

[zkoppert]

Creating a release today!