Simplify downstream branch name

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions

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
 
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