Use the checkout_path for getting the commit oid

This commit also adds a new integration check to verify this.

When running in test mode, payloads will not be uploaded. Instead, they
will be saved to disk so that they can be inspected later.

pr-checks/checks/with-checkout-path.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+name: "Use a custom `checkout_path`"
+description: "Checks that a custom `checkout_path` will find the proper commit_oid"
+# Build tracing currently does not support Windows 2022, so use `windows-2019` instead of
+# `windows-latest`.
+# Must test on all three platforms since this test does path manipulation
+os: [ubuntu-latest, macos-latest, windows-2019]
+steps:
+  # Check out the actions repo again, but at a different location.
+  # choose an arbitrary SHA so that we can later test that the commit_oid is not from main
+  - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+    with:
+      ref: 474bbf07f9247ffe1856c6a0f94aeeb10e7afee6
+      path: x/y/z/some-path
+  - uses: ./../action/init
+    with:
+      tools: ${{ steps.prepare-test.outputs.tools-url }}
+      # it's enough to test one compiled language and one interpreted language
+      languages: java,javascript
+      source-path: x/y/z/some-path/tests/multi-language-repo
+      debug: true
+
+  - name: Build code
+    shell: bash
+    run: x/y/z/some-path/tests/multi-language-repo/build.sh
+  - uses: ./../action/analyze
+    with:
+      checkout_path: x/y/z/some-path/tests/multi-language-repo
+      ref: v1.1.0
+      sha: 474bbf07f9247ffe1856c6a0f94aeeb10e7afee6
+      upload: false
+    env:
+      TEST_MODE: true
+  - uses: ./../action/upload-sarif
+    with:
+      ref: v1.1.0
+      sha: 474bbf07f9247ffe1856c6a0f94aeeb10e7afee6
+      checkout_path: x/y/z/some-path/tests/multi-language-repo
+    env:
+      TEST_MODE: true
+
+  - name: Verify SARIF
+    run: |
+      EXPECTED_COMMIT_OID="474bbf07f9247ffe1856c6a0f94aeeb10e7afee6"
+      EXPECTED_REF="v1.1.0"
+      EXPECTED_CHECKOUT_URI_SUFFIX="/x/y/z/some-path/tests/multi-language-repo"
+
+      ACTUAL_COMMIT_OID="$(cat "$RUNNER_TEMP/payload.json" | jq -r .commit_oid)"
+      ACTUAL_REF="$(cat "$RUNNER_TEMP/payload.json" | jq -r .ref)"
+      ACTUAL_CHECKOUT_URI="$(cat "$RUNNER_TEMP/payload.json" | jq -r .checkout_uri)"
+
+      if [[ "$EXPECTED_COMMIT_OID" != "$ACTUAL_COMMIT_OID" ]]; then
+        echo "Invalid commit oid. Expected: $EXPECTED_COMMIT_OID Actual: $ACTUAL_COMMIT_OID"
+        exit 1
+      fi
+
+      if [[ "$EXPECTED_REF" != "$ACTUAL_REF" ]]; then
+        echo "Invalid ref. Expected: '$EXPECTED_REF' Actual: '$ACTUAL_REF'"
+        exit 1
+      fi
+
+      if [[ "$ACTUAL_CHECKOUT_URI" != *$EXPECTED_CHECKOUT_URI_SUFFIX ]]; then
+        echo "Invalid checkout URI suffix. Expected suffix: $EXPECTED_CHECKOUT_URI_SUFFIX Actual uri: $ACTUAL_CHECKOUT_URI"
+        exit 1
+      fi

src/actions-util.ts

@@ -60,7 +60,10 @@ export function getToolCacheDirectory(): string {
 /**
  * Gets the SHA of the commit that is currently checked out.
  */
-export const getCommitOid = async function (ref = "HEAD"): Promise<string> {
+export const getCommitOid = async function (
+  checkoutPath: string,
+  ref = "HEAD"
+): Promise<string> {
   // Try to use git to get the current commit SHA. If that fails then
   // log but otherwise silently fall back to using the SHA from the environment.
   // The only time these two values will differ is during analysis of a PR when
@@ -83,6 +86,7 @@ export const getCommitOid = async function (ref = "HEAD"): Promise<string> {
             process.stderr.write(data);
           },
         },
+        cwd: checkoutPath,
       }
     ).exec();
     return commitOid.trim();
@@ -107,6 +111,7 @@ export const determineMergeBaseCommitOid = async function (): Promise<
   }
 
   const mergeSha = getRequiredEnvParam("GITHUB_SHA");
+  const checkoutPath = getRequiredInput("checkout_path");
 
   try {
     let commitOid = "";
@@ -134,6 +139,7 @@ export const determineMergeBaseCommitOid = async function (): Promise<
             process.stderr.write(data);
           },
         },
+        cwd: checkoutPath,
       }
     ).exec();
 
@@ -498,6 +504,10 @@ export async function getRef(): Promise<string> {
   // or in the form "refs/pull/N/merge" on a pull_request event
   const refInput = getOptionalInput("ref");
   const shaInput = getOptionalInput("sha");
+  const checkoutPath =
+    getOptionalInput("checkout_path") ||
+    getOptionalInput("source-root") ||
+    getRequiredEnvParam("GITHUB_WORKSPACE");
 
   const hasRefInput = !!refInput;
   const hasShaInput = !!shaInput;
@@ -526,7 +536,7 @@ export async function getRef(): Promise<string> {
     return ref;
   }
 
-  const head = await getCommitOid("HEAD");
+  const head = await getCommitOid(checkoutPath, "HEAD");
 
   // in actions/checkout@v2 we can check if git rev-parse HEAD == GITHUB_SHA
   // in actions/checkout@v1 this may not be true as it checks out the repository
@@ -535,8 +545,10 @@ export async function getRef(): Promise<string> {
   // git git-parse GITHUB_REF == git rev-parse HEAD instead.
   const hasChangedRef =
     sha !== head &&
-    (await getCommitOid(ref.replace(/^refs\/pull\//, "refs/remotes/pull/"))) !==
-      head;
+    (await getCommitOid(
+      checkoutPath,
+      ref.replace(/^refs\/pull\//, "refs/remotes/pull/")
+    )) !== head;
 
   if (hasChangedRef) {
     const newRef = ref.replace(pull_ref_regex, "refs/pull/$1/head");

src/upload-lib.ts

@@ -100,7 +100,15 @@ async function uploadPayload(
   // If in test mode we don't want to upload the results
   const testMode = process.env["TEST_MODE"] === "true" || false;
   if (testMode) {
-    logger.debug("In test mode. Results are not uploaded.");
+    const payloadSaveFile = path.join(
+      actionsUtil.getTemporaryDirectory(),
+      "payload.json"
+    );
+    logger.info(
+      `In test mode. Results are not uploaded. Saving to ${payloadSaveFile}`
+    );
+    logger.info(`Payload: ${JSON.stringify(payload, null, 2)}`);
+    fs.writeFileSync(payloadSaveFile, JSON.stringify(payload, null, 2));
     return;
   }
 
@@ -165,7 +173,9 @@ export async function uploadFromActions(
   return await uploadFiles(
     getSarifFilePaths(sarifPath),
     parseRepositoryNwo(util.getRequiredEnvParam("GITHUB_REPOSITORY")),
-    await actionsUtil.getCommitOid(),
+    await actionsUtil.getCommitOid(
+      actionsUtil.getRequiredInput("checkout_path")
+    ),
     await actionsUtil.getRef(),
     await actionsUtil.getAnalysisKey(),
     actionsUtil.getOptionalInput("category"),