From 77129545f63b100a274629e5023ce7f3b04323ed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arun Babu Neelicattu <arun.neelicattu@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2026 12:22:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix: handle the use of latest tag alias correctly

Fixes fallback curl release resolution when the gh CLI is missing or fails.
---
 action.yml | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/action.yml b/action.yml
index 3b5e14e..ab4bd53 100644
--- a/action.yml
+++ b/action.yml
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ runs:
             TAG=$(gh release view --repo "${{ inputs.repo }}" --json tagName -q .tagName || true)
           fi
           # Fallback to public GitHub API
-          if [ -z "$TAG" ]; then
+          if [ -z "$TAG" ] || [ "$TAG" = "latest" ]; then
             AUTH=()
             if [ -n "${GH_TOKEN:-}" ]; then
               AUTH=(-H "Authorization: token $GH_TOKEN")
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ runs:
             TAG=$(curl -sSL "${AUTH[@]}" "https://api.github.com/repos/${{ inputs.repo }}/releases/latest" | jq -r '.tag_name // empty' || true)
           fi
           # Fail if we still couldn't resolve the latest tag
-          if [ -z "$TAG" ] || [ "$TAG" = "null" ]; then
+          if [ -z "$TAG" ] || [ "$TAG" = "latest" ] || [ "$TAG" = "null" ]; then
             echo "::error::Could not resolve latest release tag for ${{ inputs.repo }}"
             exit 1
           fi