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Romain Lespinasse
Romain Lespinasse

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Use Slug variables for your release and deployment workflows

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My Workflow

Want to use the branch name in an url during a deployment? Want to use a commit hash in a release process?

Slug it.

This action give you access to multiple slug version of some GitHub variables to be use on your release or deployment workflows.

Submission Category:

  • Maintainer Must-Haves
  • DIY Deployments

Yaml File or Link to Code

This action source code is available on https://github.com/rlespinasse/github-slug-action

- name: Inject slug/short variables uses: rlespinasse/github-slug-action@v2.x - name: Print slug/short variables run: | echo "Slug variables" echo " ref : ${{ env.GITHUB_REF_SLUG }}" echo " head ref : ${{ env.GITHUB_HEAD_REF_SLUG }}" echo " base ref : ${{ env.GITHUB_BASE_REF_SLUG }}" echo " event ref : ${{ env.GITHUB_EVENT_REF_SLUG }}" echo " repository : ${{ env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY_SLUG }}" echo "Slug URL variables" echo " ref : ${{ env.GITHUB_REF_SLUG_URL }}" echo " head ref : ${{ env.GITHUB_HEAD_REF_SLUG_URL }}" echo " base ref : ${{ env.GITHUB_BASE_REF_SLUG_URL }}" echo " event ref : ${{ env.GITHUB_EVENT_REF_SLUG_URL }}" echo " repository : ${{ env.GITHUB_REPOSITORY_SLUG_URL }}" echo "Short SHA variables" echo " sha : ${{ env.GITHUB_SHA_SHORT }}"
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GitHub Action to expose slug value of GitHub environment variables inside your GitHub workflow

Contributions welcome

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