Github Action to shortify a git revision

Produce short revision environment variable based on the input one.

If a revision is a bad revision, this action will produce an error message and fail depending on continue-on-error input value. <NAME>, and <NAME>_SHORT environment variable will only be available if the revision is not empty and valid.

• Shortify an environment variable

  - uses: rlespinasse/[email protected]
    with:
      name: GITHUB_SHA

  Will make available

  • GITHUB_SHA_SHORT

• Shortify an environment variable with prefix

  - uses: rlespinasse/[email protected]
    with:
      name: GITHUB_SHA
      prefix: CI_

  Will make available

  • CI_GITHUB_SHA
  • CI_GITHUB_SHA_SHORT

• Shortify any revision

  - uses: rlespinasse/[email protected]
    with:
      name: SOME_REVISION
      revision: 88428f56bd9d2751c47106bedfd148162dfa50b8

  Will make available

  • SOME_REVISION
  • SOME_REVISION_SHORT

If used with revision input, it's the name of the environment variable containing the revision to shortify. Otherwise, the name input will be used (in upper case) to define a environment variable containing the revision input value.

The revision to shortify into an environment variable named <NAME>_SHORT.

This input is Optional.

If the input is set to true, this action will not fail on a bad revision

The default value is false.

The value will be prepend to each generated variable.

This input is Optional.