Allow overriding repository

README.md

@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ generates for you or Base64 encode it in the secret.
 * `application_id`: The GitHub Application ID that you wil be getting the access token for
 * `application_private_key`: A private key generated for the GitHub Application so that you can authenticate (PEM format or base64 encoded)
 * `permissions`: The optional limited permissions to request, specifying this allows you to request a subset of the permissions for the underlying GitHub Application. Defaults to all permissions available to the GitHub Application when not specified. Must be provided in a comma separated list of token permissions e.g. `issues:read, secrets:write, packages:read`
+* `repository`: An optional `owner/repository` name if the GitHub Application is not installed on the repository within which the action is running.
 * `organization`: An optional organization name if the GitHub Application is installed at the Organization level (instead of the repository).
 * `github_api_base_url`: An optional URL to the GitHub API, this will be read and loaded from the runner environment by default, but you might be bridging access to a secondary GHES instance or from GHES to GHEC, you can utilize this to make sure the Octokit library is talking to the right GitHub instance.
 * `https_proxy`: An optional proxy to use for connecting with the GitHub instance. If the runner has `HTTP_PROXY` or `HTTPS_PROXY` specified as environment variables it will attempt to use those if this parameter is not specified.

action.yml

@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ inputs:
     description: The permissions to request e.g. issues:read,secrets:write,packages:read. Defaults to all available permissions
     required: false
 
+  repository:
+    description: The GitHub Organization/Repository name to get the application installation for, if not specified will use the current repository instead
+    required: false
+
   organization:
     description: The GitHub Organization to get the application installation for, if not specified will use the current repository instead
     required: false

src/actions/main.ts

@@ -29,10 +29,10 @@ async function run() {
 
     try {
       const userSpecifiedOrganization = core.getInput('organization');
-      const repository = process.env['GITHUB_REPOSITORY'];
+      const repository = core.getInput('repository') || process.env['GITHUB_REPOSITORY'];
 
       if (!repository || repository.trim().length === 0) {
-        throw new Error(`The repository value was missing from the environment as 'GITHUB_REPOSITORY'`);
+        throw new Error(`The repository value was missing from the input as 'repository', or the environment as 'GITHUB_REPOSITORY'`);
       }
 
       const repoParts = repository.split('/');