Missing repository name on variables and contexts

[furlangiacomo]

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Hi, according to GitHub's documentation, there is a variable called GITHUB_REPOSITORY that contains the repository name in the format owner/repository. Additionally, there is another variable, `GITHUB_REPOSITORY_OWNER, that contains only the repository owner.

Is there a specific reason why there isn't a third variable, perhaps called GITHUB_REPOSITORY_NAME, to store just the repository name? This would eliminate the need to extract it manually from GITHUB_REPOSITORY every time.

Same for contexts where we have github.repository and github.repository_owner but no github.repository_name.

[YerssonDavid]

Hola, gracias por preguntar.

Segun la documentación de GitHub, en resumen, se puede decir que no hay una variable en específico para poder almacenar solo el nombre del repositorio. En realidad, es necesario extraerlo manualmente de **.GITHUB_REPOSITORY_NAME GITHUB_REPOSITORY**

Espero te sea util la información y allá podido resolver tu inquietud.

[furlangiacomo]

Hi, thanks for your reply, but you just confirmed what I wrote, my question is, why it is not present that variable with just the repository_name by default? it should be an easy thing to have.

[YerssonDavid]

Hola nuevamente.

Entiendo tu pregunta, es verdad que GitHub no proporciona una variable especifica como GITHUB_REPOSITORY_NAME para contener solamente el nombre del repositorio, la razón es que esta no está documentada explícitamente, pero esto puede deberse a que la variable GITHUB_REPOSITORY ya contiene tanto el propietario como el nombre del repositorio.

Espero haberte ayudado.

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