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set-github-variable

A GitHub Action for updating Github Variables

Usage

Updates Github Variable for a repository or organization.

- uses: mmoyaferrer/set-github-variable@v1.0.0
  with:
      name: 'SAMPLE_VAR'
      value: 'Hello World'
      repository: mmoyaferrer/set-github-variable
      token: ${{ secrets.REPO_ACCESS_TOKEN }}

Pre-requisites

1. Create a Github Variable for your repo/organization.
2. Create an access token with access to manage actions repository variables.

It does not require to do checkout and it's independent on the Github runner/docker container used.

Customizing

inputs

The following are required

Name	Type	Description
name	String	Variable name
value	String	Variable value
repository	String	Repository name, with format <organization>/<repository> i.e mmoyaferrer/set-github-variable
token	String	Repository Token

The following are optional, to be provided when the value is Org scoped instead of a repository variable:

Name	Type	Description
org	Boolean	Details if the variable belongs to an organization (default is false)
visibility	String	Configures access to the repositorys in the org, see more
selectedRepositoryIds	String[Integer]	Array of repositories ids where to update the org-scoped variable, see more

outputs

The following outputs can be accessed via ${{ steps.<step-id>.outputs }} from this action

Name	Type	Description
data	String	Response data from Github API
status	Integer	Response code from Github API