According to the documentation for the GITHUB_WORKSPACE environment variable here: https://help.github.com/en/articles/virtual-environments-for-github-actions#default-environment-variables, the Github workspace patch should contain a copy of the source code.

However, this appears to not be the case. The directory is empty when I use it as the working directory and run ls.

My workflow looks like this:

name: Publish the website  
on:

push:

branches:

test-site

jobs:

publish:

name: Publish site

runs-on: ubuntu-latest

steps:

name: Build site assets

working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}

run: ls -la
name: Publish site to calcite-site repository

working-directory: site

run: echo Publishing..  

Is Github Actions suppose to include a copy of the repository in the working directory or should I use the checkout action to check a copy out?