setup-go/action.yml

name: 'Setup Go environment'
description: 'Setup a Go environment and add it to the PATH'
author: 'GitHub'
inputs:
  go-version:
    description: 'The Go version to download (if necessary) and use. Supports semver spec and ranges. Be sure to enclose this option in single quotation marks.'
  go-version-file:
    description: 'Path to the go.mod, go.work, .go-version, or .tool-versions file.'
  check-latest:
    description: 'Set this option to true if you want the action to always check for the latest available version that satisfies the version spec'
    default: false
  token:
    description: Used to pull Go distributions from go-versions. Since there's a default, this is typically not supplied by the user. When running this action on github.com, the default value is sufficient. When running on GHES, you can pass a personal access token for github.com if you are experiencing rate limiting.
    default: ${{ github.server_url == 'https://github.com' && github.token || '' }}
  cache:
    description: Used to specify whether caching is needed. Set to true, if you'd like to enable caching.
    default: true
  cache-dependency-path:
    description: 'Used to specify the path to a dependency file (e.g., go.mod, go.sum)'
  architecture:
    description: 'Target architecture for Go to use. Examples: x86, x64. Will use system architecture by default.'
  go-download-base-url:
    description: 'Custom base URL for downloading Go distributions. Use this to download Go from a mirror or custom source. Defaults to "https://go.dev/dl". Can also be set via the GO_DOWNLOAD_BASE_URL environment variable. The input takes precedence over the environment variable.'
outputs:
  go-version:
    description: 'The installed Go version. Useful when given a version range as input.'
  cache-hit:
    description: 'A boolean value to indicate if a cache was hit'
runs:
  using: 'node24'
  main: 'dist/setup/index.js'
  post: 'dist/cache-save/index.js'
  post-if: success()