role_name is not used when installing from Git

[pdesgarets]

Bug Report

SUMMARY

I want to use a custom role name, that is not the name of the repo. So I use role_name as explained here

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

• ansible-galaxy init my-role
• add role_name: custom-name in galaxy_info in meta/main.yml
• push the role to a Git server
• install with ansible-galaxy install git+https://...

EXPECTED RESULTS

role is available as custom-name in the playbooks

ACTUAL RESULTS

role is available as my-role wich is the repo's name

You can try with ansible-galaxy install git+https://github.com/pdesgarets/my-role.git.

Thanks.

[chouseknecht]

If you install directly from a git URL, then yes, the role name ends up being the repo name. Don't think we're going to fix this in the existing ansible-galaxy client. It may get enabled in Mazer.

[maresb]

I'm not sure if it's in the docs, but after scouring the source code, I learned that you can specify the role name at the end of the URL with a comma.

ansible-galaxy install git+https://github.com/pdesgarets/my-role.git,commit-id,custom-name

It has to come after a commit ID, which can also be a branch name such as master/main.