This GitHub Action will expose the slug/short values of some GitHub environment variables inside your GitHub workflow.

• GitHub Slug action
  • Table of Contents
  • Overview
  • Use this action
  • Available Environment variables
    • Enhanced variables
    • Partial variables
    • Slug variables
    • Slug URL variables
    • Short variables
  • Contribute
  • Troubleshooting
    • One of the environment variables doesn't work as intended
      • Known environment variable conflicts
        • GITHUB_REF_NAME
    • An action could not be found at the URI
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SLUG on a variable will

• put the variable content in lower case
• replace any character by - except 0-9, a-z, ., and _
• remove leading - characters
• limit the string size to 63 characters
• remove trailing - characters

Additional enhanced environment variables can be compute to help you around GitHub environment variables.

Add this in your workflow

- name: Inject slug/short variables
  uses: rlespinasse/github-slug-action@v3.x

Check for more examples (OS usage, URL use, ...)

Tip: Use Dependabot to maintain your github-slug-action version updated in your GitHub workflows.

Note: If you don't find what you search for, read more about available GitHub variables, and propose a new custom variable.

• GITHUB_REF_NAME will contains the reference name (branch or tag)
  • based on GITHUB_HEAD_REF in a pull-request* event context,
  • based on GITHUB_REF in others event context.

NOTE: All enhanced variables are available in all slug formats.

NOTE: _CS suffix available

NOTE: _CS suffix available

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Note: When you set a custom environment variable, you cannot use any of the default environment variable names. For a complete list of these, see Default environment variables. If you attempt to override the value of one of these default environment variables, the assignment is ignored.

If a variable start to be used as default environment variable, the environment variable may have a different behavior than the expected one.

If this append, the ${{ env.GITHUB_AWESOME_VARIABLE }} and $GITHUB_AWESOME_VARIABLE expression will not works in the same way.

• ${{ env.GITHUB_AWESOME_VARIABLE }} will serve the behavior of this action,
• $GITHUB_AWESOME_VARIABLE will serve the behavior of GitHub Action.

Otherwise the two expression will serve the behavior of this action. This will not occurs if you use the prefix input to avoid the issue.

NOTE: If detected, the maintainers of this action will choose the best course of action depending of the impact.

The behavior is the same as the GitHub one except on pull_request* workflows (Ready the full story).

• ${{ env.GITHUB_REF_NAME }} will serve the behavior of this action,
• $GITHUB_REF_NAME will serve the behavior of GitHub Action.

On pull_request* workflows, the content will be <PR-number>/merge instead of the branch name.

A possible workaround is to use prefix input available in v4 version

- name: Inject slug/short variables
  uses: rlespinasse/github-slug-action@v4
  with:
    prefix: CI_

Then ${{ env.CI_GITHUB_REF_NAME }}, and $CI_GITHUB_REF_NAME will serve the behavior of this action. And $GITHUB_REF_NAME will serve the behavior of GitHub Action.

If your workflow fail on the Set up job task with this kind of log :

Download action repository 'rlespinasse/github-slug-action@master'
##[error]An action could not be found at the URI 'https://api.github.com/repos/rlespinasse/github-slug-action/tarball/master'

The master branch doesn't exists anymore.

The master branch EOL has been set to 2020-10-25 after a 6-month deprecation period (more information on the EOL issue)

Please, use the current branch v3.x or a version tag (see releases pages) in order to fix your workflow.

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