v0.7 manual trigger fails when root folder defined

[AstroSucheta]

Astro deploy does not work on v0.7 when the root folder is defined and the pipeline is triggered manually.
The customer raised this issue and it has been tested internally.

Using the following GH template

name: Astronomer CI - Deployment
on:
  release:
    types: [ published ]
  workflow_dispatch:

env:
  RUN_PYTEST: false

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Deploy to Astro
        uses: astronomer/[email protected]
        env:
          ASTRO_API_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.ASTRO_API_TOKEN }}
          DEPLOYMENT_ID: cm28zt0ts0rs101qmtpl3jagm
        with:
          deploy-type: infer
          root-folder: astronomer-example
          force: true # without this, it fails due to our custom backend integration...
          pytest: ${{ env.RUN_PYTEST }}
          description: ${{ github.ref }}
          deploy-image: true