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double check if path contains some special characters, spaces etc.

The above did not work, I still don't really understand what was going on with it but in case anyone else searches for this in the future I will add: I solved this by setting the working-directory of my github action to the path I was trying to pass to --cwd. Not a perfect solution, but working for my use case. Thanks for the suggestion Jakub 🙂