shortify-git-revision/README.md

Shortify git revision

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.

Usage

• Shortify an environment variable

  - uses: rlespinasse/shortify-git-revision@v1.x
    with:
      name: GITHUB_SHA
  

  Will make available

  • GITHUB_SHA_SHORT

• Shortify any revision

  - uses: rlespinasse/slugify-value@v1.x
    with:
      name: SOME_REVISION
      revision: 88428f56bd9d2751c47106bedfd148162dfa50b8
  

  Will make available

  • SOME_REVISION
  • SOME_REVISION_SHORT

Inputs

name

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.

revision

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

This input is Optional.

continue-on-error

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

The default value is false.