cargo-install/README.md

Fast cargo install action

This GitHub Action installs a Rust crate using precompiled signed binaries built on GitHub and hosted as GitHub release artifacts.

Example workflow

name: test suite
on: [push, pull_request]

jobs:
  expand:
    name: cargo expand
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: dtolnay/install@master
        with:
          crate: cargo-expand
      - run: cargo expand --help

Inputs

Name	Required	Description
crate	✓	Name of crate as published to crates.io
bin		Name of binary; default = same as crate name

Security

Binaries are cryptographically signed and verified using GitHub artifact attestation to establish the build's provenance, including the specific workflow file and workflow run that produced the artifact.

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the MIT License.