Is there a way to get the project folder name only on a Github action?

Question

I can get repoowner/repo-name with ${{ github.repository }} but I like to get just the repo-name.

While I am at it.

GitLab has a straight forward variable for this.

How do I get reference access env variables from the .yaml not inside scripts? Does ${{ $ENV_VAR }} work? Probably not.

Is there a way to remove or replace the slashes directly in the yaml?

  build:     needs: test     name: Build release Zip     runs-on: ubuntu-latest     env:       DEPLOY_REF: ${{ github.sha }}       DEPLOY_REF_SHORT: ${{ github.sha }}       DEPLOY_ZIPFILE: ${{ github.workspace }}/build/zip/${{ github.repository }}-${{ github.sha }}.zip     steps: 

Answer 1

github context also contains event data, from where you can easily read some more detailed info. In this case, ${{ github.event.repository.name }} will give you only repo-name part.

It might be a good idea to create testing workflow/job to print all context data until you're familiar with them, see Example printing context information to the log file.

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As for replacing text, you can always dedicate one of first steps to prepare everything you need later with either ::set-env or ::set-output. You just need to print name/value in specific format, so you can use any shell you're familiar with to manipulate text while doing that:

# All steps after this one will have env variable `GHA_BRANCH` passed to them. - run:   echo ::set-env name=GHA_BRANCH::$(echo $GITHUB_REF | awk -F / '{print $3}')   shell: bash