How to get current branch within github actions

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aborilov picture aborilov · Sep 20, 2019 · Viewed 51.5k times · Source

I'm building docker images with Github Actions and want to tags images with branch name, I found only GITHUB_REF variable, but it results in refs/heads/feature-branch-1 and I need only feature-branch-1.

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aborilov picture aborilov · Sep 20, 2019

I added a separate step for extracting branch name from $GITHUB_REF and set it to the step output

- name: Extract branch name
  shell: bash
  run: echo "##[set-output name=branch;]$(echo ${GITHUB_REF#refs/heads/})"
  id: extract_branch

after that, I can use it in the next steps with

- name: Push to ECR
  id: ecr
  uses: jwalton/gh-ecr-push@master
  with:
    access-key-id: ${{ secrets.AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID }}
    secret-access-key: ${{ secrets.AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY }}
    region: us-west-2
    image: eng:${{ steps.extract_branch.outputs.branch }}

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