actions/checkout
Action for checking out a repo
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
No releases in the last 90 days; the most recent was 108 days ago, with 54 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #11 in the weekly ranking the week of Jul 5, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Checks out a GitHub repository into the GitHub Actions workspace for workflow access.
- Enables authenticated git commands with token or SSH key persistence and supports shallow or full clone options.
- Use for automating CI/CD workflows that require repository code checkout and manipulation.
- Use for fetching specific files or folders via sparse checkout to optimize workflow performance.
- Use for managing multiple repositories in a single workflow, including private repos with custom tokens.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
MIT
Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
No watch-outs from GStars' checks.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
This action checks-out your repository under
$GITHUB_WORKSPACE, so your workflow can access it.Only a single commit is fetched by default, for the ref/SHA that triggered the workflow. Set
fetch-depth: 0to fetch all history for all branches and tags. Refer here to learn which commit$GITHUB_SHApoints to for different events.The auth token is persisted in the local git config. This enables your scripts to run authenticated git commands. The token is removed during post-job cleanup. Set
persist-credentials: falseto opt-out.When Git 2.18 or higher is not in your PATH, falls back to the REST API to download the files.
Thank you for your interest in this GitHub action, however, right now we are not taking contributions.
We continue to focus our resources on strategic areas that help our customers be successful while making developers' lives easier. While GitHub Actions remains a key part of this vision, we are allocating resources towards other areas of Actions and are not taking contributions to this repository at this time. The GitHub public roadmap is the best place to follow along for any updates on features we’re working on and what stage they’re in.
We are taking the following steps to better direct requests related to GitHub Actions, including:
We will still provide security updates for this project and fix major breaking changes during this time.
You are welcome to still raise bugs in this repo.
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+382 stars over 90 days across 16 snapshot days; best day +70 on Aug 28.
Forks
2.7K-7
Open issues
703+18
Compared with peers in Web
Fastest-growing repositories GStars tracks in this cohort for the week of Nov 1, by 7-day star growth
| Repository | Stars | +7d | Health | Last release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pingdotgg/t3code | 48.4K | +16.6K | 40 | today |
| pbakaus/impeccable | 104.0K | +8.7K | 54 | 10 days ago |
| HunYiSage/dsh-purge | 19.2K | +6.2K | 13 | today |
| Renhuai123/ziwei-doushu | 16.2K | +6.1K | 44 | 21 days ago |
| paperclipai/paperclip | 111.5K | +2.8K | 59 | 13 days ago |
| actions/checkout | 9.0K | — | 59 | 108 days ago |
| Category median | 48.4K | +6.2K | 44 | — |
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