Get github env in shh-action

[erfannariman]

I want to get the remote-url as an env variable in my ssh-action step. What I tried so far:

name: Azure VM deploy # test deploy Azure
on:
  push:
    branches:
      - main
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:

    - name: Check out code
      uses: actions/checkout@v2

    - name: Environment variables
      run: |
        echo "GURL=$(git remote get-url origin)" >> $GITHUB_ENV

    - name: Create project dir
      uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
      env:
        MYGURL: ${{ github.GURL }}
      with:
        HOST: ${{ secrets.AZURE_HOST }}
        USERNAME: ${{ secrets.AZURE_USERNAME }}
        KEY: ${{ secrets.AZURE_KEY }}
        PORT: ${{ secrets.PORT }}
        ENVS: MYGURL
        script: |
          mkdir -p ~/projects
          echo "$MYGURL"
          cd ~/projects
          if [ -d "${{ github.event.repository.name }}" ]; then
            echo "Directory already exists"
            cd ${{ github.event.repository.name }}
            git pull --rebase
          else
            echo "Project does not exist, cloning.."
            git clone $MYGURL
          fi
          echo 'Deployment to Azure succesful!'

But this does not seem to work since echo "$MUGURL" gives an empty string. Is there a way to achieve what I want with ssh-action?

The final goal is to make line git clone $MYGURL work in some way. So we have to get the remote repo url in a general way.

[sastraxi]

@erfannariman The best way to do this is to build the clone URL yourself, something like this (untested):

uses: appleboy/ssh-action@master
env:
  REPO: ${{ github.repository }} # e.g. "appleboy/ssh-action"
  TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
with:
  envs: REPO,TOKEN
  script: |
    git clone https://$TOKEN@github.com/$REPO.git

See https://github.blog/2012-09-21-easier-builds-and-deployments-using-git-over-https-and-oauth/ for why this URL works.