Simplify downstream branch name

2 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 2f61a2864f9..caf30093229 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ package-and-qa:
     name: review-docs/$CI_COMMIT_REF_SLUG
     # DOCS_REVIEW_APPS_DOMAIN and DOCS_GITLAB_REPO_SUFFIX are secret variables
     # Discussion: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/merge_requests/14236/diffs#note_40140693
-    url: http://$DOCS_GITLAB_REPO_SUFFIX-$CI_ENVIRONMENT_SLUG.$DOCS_REVIEW_APPS_DOMAIN/$DOCS_GITLAB_REPO_SUFFIX
+    url: http://$CI_ENVIRONMENT_SLUG.$DOCS_REVIEW_APPS_DOMAIN/$DOCS_GITLAB_REPO_SUFFIX
     on_stop: review-docs-cleanup
 
 # Trigger a manual docs build in gitlab-docs only on non docs-only branches.
diff --git a/scripts/trigger-build-docs b/scripts/trigger-build-docs
index 2a0e7f4d76e..9ee35684509 100755
--- a/scripts/trigger-build-docs
+++ b/scripts/trigger-build-docs
@@ -16,18 +16,14 @@ end
 GITLAB_DOCS_REPO = 'gitlab-com/gitlab-docs'.freeze
 
 #
-# Truncate the remote docs branch name if it's more than 63 characters
-# otherwise we hit the filesystem limit and the directory name where
-# NGINX serves the site won't match the branch name.
+# Truncate the remote docs branch name otherwise we hit the filesystem
+# limit and the directory name where NGINX serves the site won't match
+# the branch name.
 #
 def docs_branch
   # The maximum string length a file can have on a filesystem (ext4)
-  # is 63 characters. Let's use something smaller to be 100% sure.
-  max = 42
-  # Prefix the remote branch with the slug of the project in order
-  # to avoid name conflicts in the rare case the branch name already
-  # exists in the docs repo and truncate to max length.
-  "#{slug}-#{ENV["CI_ENVIRONMENT_SLUG"]}"[0...max]
+  # is 63 characters. CI_ENVIRONMENT_SLUG is limited to 24 characters.
+  ENV["CI_ENVIRONMENT_SLUG"]
 end
 
 #