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Fall back to Go 1.26 with a warning when the version file is missing #33

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21 changes: 18 additions & 3 deletions actions/install-go-with-cache/action.yml
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description: "The Go version to download and use. Supports semver spec and ranges. When set, go-version-file is ignored."
default: ""
go-version-file:
description: "Path to the go.mod or go.work file to extract the version from. Defaults to go.mod so projects automatically use the version declared in their module."
description: "Path to the go.mod or go.work file to extract the version from. Defaults to go.mod so projects automatically use the version declared in their module. Ignored when go-version is set. If the file does not exist, Go 1.26 is installed and a warning is emitted."
default: "go.mod"
gh_token:
description: "GitHub Personal Access Token"

runs:
using: "composite"
steps:
# Without this, a missing version file fails setup-go outright. Repos that never
# checked out, or that have no go.mod at all, worked until go-version-file became
# the default. Fall back to Go 1.26 for that case.
- name: Fall back when the Go version file is missing
id: fallback
if: ${{ inputs.go-version == '' }}
shell: bash
env:
GO_VERSION_FILE: ${{ inputs.go-version-file }}
run: |
if [ ! -e "$GO_VERSION_FILE" ]; then
echo "::warning title=Go version file not found::The configured go-version-file does not exist in the workspace, so Go 1.26 is installed instead. Run actions/checkout before this action, or pass go-version explicitly to silence this warning."
echo "go-version=1.26" >> "$GITHUB_OUTPUT"
fi

- name: Setup Go
uses: actions/setup-go@v6
with:
go-version: ${{ inputs.go-version }}
go-version-file: ${{ inputs.go-version == '' && inputs.go-version-file || '' }}
go-version: ${{ inputs.go-version || steps.fallback.outputs.go-version }}
go-version-file: ${{ inputs.go-version == '' && steps.fallback.outputs.go-version == '' && inputs.go-version-file || '' }}
cache: false

- name: Detect GOMODCACHE path
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