for pull_request GITHUB_REF_NAME doesn't contains actual branch name

[jupe]

If job is triggered using pull_request there is no actual branch available in GITHUB_REF_NAME. This looks a bit issue in GitHub context side since there is no clear variable where to get branch name regardless how job is triggered. Maybe branch name extracting should be separate variable that works also for pull_requests.

gitHub.ref: "refs/pull/844/merg
head_ref: "my-branch",
GITHUB_REF_SLUG: refs-pull-844-merge
GITHUB_REF_NAME: 844/merge
GITHUB_REF_NAME_SLUG: 844-merge

[FranzDiebold]

Hi @jupe ,
thanks for your feedback!
You're right, GITHUB_REF_NAME is not set for event type pull_request by GitHub.

That's why I improved github-env-vars-action in version v1.3.0 📦 to solve this issue: There's now a new environment variable GITHUB_BRANCH_NAME exactly for this use case! 💪 It contains the branch name for both event types push and pull_request.

Have fun using github-env-vars-action and give it a ⭐.