Behaviour

When setting with: sep-tags: ' ' (a string containing a single space character), the separator is ignored, and the action continues to separate the tags with a newline instead.

Setting sep-tags to some other string, such as xxx, works as expected.

My theory is that the call to core.getInput on this line is returning a falsy value when it retrieves a string that contains only whitespace.

Given that setting this value to ' ' is probably the most plausible use case for sep-tags, I would expect this to work correctly. For now my workaround will have to be to use sed to convert the newlines to spaces for the rest of my scripting to consume.

Steps to reproduce this issue

1. Set sep-tags to ' '

Expected behaviour

The tags in the output should be separated by a single space.

Actual behaviour

The tags are separated by a newline, as if we did not set sep-tags.

Configuration

      - name: Docker metadata
        id: docker-metadata
        uses: docker/metadata-action@v4
        with:
          images: <redacted>
          sep-tags: ' '
          tags: |
            type=sha,prefix=,format=long
            type=schedule
            type=ref,event=branch
            type=ref,event=pr
            type=raw,value=latest,enable={{is_default_branch}}

Logs

/home/runner/work/_temp/799388a1-9005-4fc6-b15d-98325a4d5ee6.sh: line 3: syntax error near unexpected token `<redacted>:ee0b30872d08ca855a7016346493cee176f3bdac'
<redacted>:ee0b30872d08ca855a7016346493cee176f3bdac