Short SHA

short-sha is a GitHub Action than provides an output sha with the shortened commit SHA.

⚠️ On November 16th, 2020 Github removes the set-env command. Version prior to v1.2 of this action will not work. See github annoucement for details.

Usage

name: 'build-test'
on: [push]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      - uses: benjlevesque/short-sha@v1.2
        id: short-sha
        with:
          length: 6
      - run: echo $SHA
        env: 
          SHA: ${{ steps.short-sha.outputs.sha }}
      - run: echo $SHA
        env: 
          SHA: ${{ env.SHA }}

Options

Name	Required	Default	Description
length	false	8	the expected length of the shortened SHA