Romain Lespinasse

    Actions Hackathon: Streamlining Workflows with Slug Variables

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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

    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 }}"

    Additional Resources / Info

    Some repositories already using it like

    And more on GitHub search page

    Contributions welcome.