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<title>Fix tag handling: preserve annotations and explicit fetch-tags (#2356)</title>
<updated>2026-01-09T19:42:23+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>eric sciple</name>
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<published>2026-01-09T19:42:23+00:00</published>
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This PR fixes several issues with tag handling in the checkout action:

1. fetch-tags: true now works (fixes #1471)
   - Tags refspec is now included in getRefSpec() when fetchTags=true
   - Previously tags were only fetched during a separate fetch that was
     overwritten by the main fetch

2. Tag checkout preserves annotations (fixes #290)
   - Tags are fetched via refspec (+refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*) instead of
     --tags flag
   - This fetches the actual tag objects, preserving annotations

3. Tag checkout with fetch-tags: true no longer fails (fixes #1467)
   - When checking out a tag with fetchTags=true, only the wildcard
     refspec is used (specific tag refspec is redundant)

Changes:
- src/ref-helper.ts: getRefSpec() now accepts fetchTags parameter and
  prepends tags refspec when true
- src/git-command-manager.ts: fetch() simplified to always use --no-tags,
  tags are fetched explicitly via refspec
- src/git-source-provider.ts: passes fetchTags to getRefSpec()
- Added E2E test for fetch-tags option

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This PR fixes several issues with tag handling in the checkout action:

1. fetch-tags: true now works (fixes #1471)
   - Tags refspec is now included in getRefSpec() when fetchTags=true
   - Previously tags were only fetched during a separate fetch that was
     overwritten by the main fetch

2. Tag checkout preserves annotations (fixes #290)
   - Tags are fetched via refspec (+refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*) instead of
     --tags flag
   - This fetches the actual tag objects, preserving annotations

3. Tag checkout with fetch-tags: true no longer fails (fixes #1467)
   - When checking out a tag with fetchTags=true, only the wildcard
     refspec is used (specific tag refspec is redundant)

Changes:
- src/ref-helper.ts: getRefSpec() now accepts fetchTags parameter and
  prepends tags refspec when true
- src/git-command-manager.ts: fetch() simplified to always use --no-tags,
  tags are fetched explicitly via refspec
- src/git-source-provider.ts: passes fetchTags to getRefSpec()
- Added E2E test for fetch-tags option

Related #1471, #1467, #290</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Add orchestration_id to git user-agent when ACTIONS_ORCHESTRATION_ID is set (#2355)</title>
<updated>2026-01-08T20:07:38+00:00</updated>
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<name>Copilot</name>
<email>198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com</email>
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<published>2026-01-08T20:07:38+00:00</published>
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* Initial plan

* Add orchestration ID support to git user-agent

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* Apply suggestion from @Copilot

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* Improve tests to verify user-agent content and handle empty sanitized IDs

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* Simplify orchestration ID validation to accept any non-empty sanitized value

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* Remove test for orchestration ID with only invalid characters

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* Initial plan

* Add orchestration ID support to git user-agent

Co-authored-by: TingluoHuang &lt;1750815+TingluoHuang@users.noreply.github.com&gt;

* Apply suggestion from @Copilot

Co-authored-by: Copilot &lt;175728472+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com&gt;

* Improve tests to verify user-agent content and handle empty sanitized IDs

Co-authored-by: TingluoHuang &lt;1750815+TingluoHuang@users.noreply.github.com&gt;

* Simplify orchestration ID validation to accept any non-empty sanitized value

Co-authored-by: TingluoHuang &lt;1750815+TingluoHuang@users.noreply.github.com&gt;

* Remove test for orchestration ID with only invalid characters

Co-authored-by: TingluoHuang &lt;1750815+TingluoHuang@users.noreply.github.com&gt;

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<entry>
<title>Persist creds to a separate file (#2286)</title>
<updated>2025-11-03T19:08:38+00:00</updated>
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<name>eric sciple</name>
<email>ericsciple@users.noreply.github.com</email>
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<published>2025-11-03T19:08:38+00:00</published>
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<title>Disable `extensions.worktreeConfig` when disabling `sparse-checkout` (#1692)</title>
<updated>2024-04-23T20:07:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Wesley Walker III</name>
<email>81404201+jww3@users.noreply.github.com</email>
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<published>2024-04-23T20:07:43+00:00</published>
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<title>Check git version before attempting to disable `sparse-checkout` (#1656)</title>
<updated>2024-03-14T14:40:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>John Wesley Walker III</name>
<email>81404201+jww3@users.noreply.github.com</email>
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<published>2024-03-14T14:40:14+00:00</published>
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* Check git version before attempting to disable `sparse-checkout`
* Bump `MinimumGitSparseCheckoutVersion` to 2.28 due to #1386
* Initial prep for release 4.1.3</content>
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* Check git version before attempting to disable `sparse-checkout`
* Bump `MinimumGitSparseCheckoutVersion` to 2.28 due to #1386
* Initial prep for release 4.1.3</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Explicitly disable sparse checkout unless asked for (#1598)</title>
<updated>2024-02-21T12:56:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Johannes Schindelin</name>
<email>johannes.schindelin@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2024-02-21T12:56:19+00:00</published>
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When a worktree is reused by actions/checkout and the first time sparse checkout was enabled, we need to ensure that the second time it is only a sparse checkout if explicitly asked for. Otherwise, we need to disable the sparse checkout so that a full checkout is the outcome of this Action.

## Details
* If no `sparse-checkout` parameter is specified, disable it

This should allow users to reuse existing folders when running
`actions/checkout` where a previous run asked for a sparse checkout but
the current run does not ask for a sparse checkout.

This fixes https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/1475

There are use cases in particular with non-ephemeral (self-hosted) runners where an
existing worktree (that has been initialized as a sparse checkout) is
reused in subsequent CI runs (where `actions/checkout` is run _without_
any `sparse-checkout` parameter).

In these scenarios, we need to make sure that the sparse checkout is
disabled before checking out the files.

### Also includes:

* npm run build
* ci: verify that an existing sparse checkout can be made unsparse
* Added a clarifying comment about test branches.
* `test-proxy` now uses newly-minted `test-ubuntu-git` container image from ghcr.io

---------

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;
Co-authored-by: John Wesley Walker III &lt;81404201+jww3@users.noreply.github.com&gt;</content>
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When a worktree is reused by actions/checkout and the first time sparse checkout was enabled, we need to ensure that the second time it is only a sparse checkout if explicitly asked for. Otherwise, we need to disable the sparse checkout so that a full checkout is the outcome of this Action.

## Details
* If no `sparse-checkout` parameter is specified, disable it

This should allow users to reuse existing folders when running
`actions/checkout` where a previous run asked for a sparse checkout but
the current run does not ask for a sparse checkout.

This fixes https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/1475

There are use cases in particular with non-ephemeral (self-hosted) runners where an
existing worktree (that has been initialized as a sparse checkout) is
reused in subsequent CI runs (where `actions/checkout` is run _without_
any `sparse-checkout` parameter).

In these scenarios, we need to make sure that the sparse checkout is
disabled before checking out the files.

### Also includes:

* npm run build
* ci: verify that an existing sparse checkout can be made unsparse
* Added a clarifying comment about test branches.
* `test-proxy` now uses newly-minted `test-ubuntu-git` container image from ghcr.io

---------

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;
Co-authored-by: John Wesley Walker III &lt;81404201+jww3@users.noreply.github.com&gt;</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Support fetching without the --progress option (#1067)</title>
<updated>2023-09-01T18:19:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Simon Baird</name>
<email>simon.baird@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-09-01T18:19:18+00:00</published>
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Setting the `show-progress` option to false in the `with` section of the
workflow step will cause git fetch to run without `--progress`.

The motivation is to be able to suppress the noisy progress status
output which adds many hundreds of "remote: Counting objects: 85%
(386/453)" and similar lines in the workflow log.

This should be sufficient to resolve #894 and its older friends,
though the solution is different to the one proposed there because
it doesn't use the --quiet flag. IIUC git doesn't show the progress
status by default since the output is not a terminal, so that's why
removing the --progress option is all that's needed.

Adding the --quiet flag doesn't make a lot of difference once the
--progress flag is removed, and actually I think using --quiet would
suppress some other more useful output that would be better left
visible.

Signed-off-by: Simon Baird &lt;sbaird@redhat.com&gt;</content>
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Setting the `show-progress` option to false in the `with` section of the
workflow step will cause git fetch to run without `--progress`.

The motivation is to be able to suppress the noisy progress status
output which adds many hundreds of "remote: Counting objects: 85%
(386/453)" and similar lines in the workflow log.

This should be sufficient to resolve #894 and its older friends,
though the solution is different to the one proposed there because
it doesn't use the --quiet flag. IIUC git doesn't show the progress
status by default since the output is not a terminal, so that's why
removing the --progress option is all that's needed.

Adding the --quiet flag doesn't make a lot of difference once the
--progress flag is removed, and actually I think using --quiet would
suppress some other more useful output that would be better left
visible.

Signed-off-by: Simon Baird &lt;sbaird@redhat.com&gt;</pre>
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<title>Add option to fetch tags even if fetch-depth &gt; 0 (#579)</title>
<updated>2023-08-16T20:34:54+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Robert Wieczoreck</name>
<email>1175008+RobertWieczoreck@users.noreply.github.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-08-16T20:34:54+00:00</published>
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* Add option to fetch tags even if fetch-depth &gt; 0

* Add jest tests for fetchDepth and fetchTags options</content>
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* Add option to fetch tags even if fetch-depth &gt; 0

* Add jest tests for fetchDepth and fetchTags options</pre>
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<title>Add support for sparse checkouts (#1369)</title>
<updated>2023-06-09T13:08:21+00:00</updated>
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<name>Johannes Schindelin</name>
<email>johannes.schindelin@gmx.de</email>
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<published>2023-06-09T13:08:21+00:00</published>
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* Add support for sparse checkouts

* sparse-checkout: optionally turn off cone mode

While it _is_ true that cone mode is the default nowadays (mainly for
performance reasons: code mode is much faster than non-cone mode), there
_are_ legitimate use cases where non-cone mode is really useful.

Let's add a flag to optionally disable cone mode.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;

* Verify minimum Git version for sparse checkout

The `git sparse-checkout` command is available only since Git version
v2.25.0. The `actions/checkout` Action actually supports older Git
versions than that; As of time of writing, the minimum version is
v2.18.0.

Instead of raising this minimum version even for users who do not
require a sparse checkout, only check for this minimum version
specifically when a sparse checkout was asked for.

Suggested-by: Tingluo Huang &lt;tingluohuang@github.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;

* Support sparse checkout/LFS better

Instead of fetching all the LFS objects present in the current revision
in a sparse checkout, whether they are needed inside the sparse cone or
not, let's instead only pull the ones that are actually needed.

To do that, let's avoid running that preemptive `git lfs fetch` call in
case of a sparse checkout.

An alternative that was considered during the development of this patch
(and ultimately rejected) was to use `git lfs pull --include &lt;path&gt;...`,
but it turned out to be too inflexible because it requires exact paths,
not the patterns that are available via the sparse checkout definition,
and that risks running into command-line length limitations.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;

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Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;
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* Add support for sparse checkouts

* sparse-checkout: optionally turn off cone mode

While it _is_ true that cone mode is the default nowadays (mainly for
performance reasons: code mode is much faster than non-cone mode), there
_are_ legitimate use cases where non-cone mode is really useful.

Let's add a flag to optionally disable cone mode.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;

* Verify minimum Git version for sparse checkout

The `git sparse-checkout` command is available only since Git version
v2.25.0. The `actions/checkout` Action actually supports older Git
versions than that; As of time of writing, the minimum version is
v2.18.0.

Instead of raising this minimum version even for users who do not
require a sparse checkout, only check for this minimum version
specifically when a sparse checkout was asked for.

Suggested-by: Tingluo Huang &lt;tingluohuang@github.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;

* Support sparse checkout/LFS better

Instead of fetching all the LFS objects present in the current revision
in a sparse checkout, whether they are needed inside the sparse cone or
not, let's instead only pull the ones that are actually needed.

To do that, let's avoid running that preemptive `git lfs fetch` call in
case of a sparse checkout.

An alternative that was considered during the development of this patch
(and ultimately rejected) was to use `git lfs pull --include &lt;path&gt;...`,
but it turned out to be too inflexible because it requires exact paths,
not the patterns that are available via the sparse checkout definition,
and that risks running into command-line length limitations.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;

---------

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin &lt;johannes.schindelin@gmx.de&gt;
Co-authored-by: Daniel &lt;daniel.fernandez@feverup.com&gt;</pre>
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<entry>
<title>Fix: Checkout fail in self-hosted runners when faulty submodule are checked-in (#1196)</title>
<updated>2023-04-14T10:26:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>SKi</name>
<email>megamanics@users.noreply.github.com</email>
</author>
<published>2023-04-14T10:26:47+00:00</published>
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* Fix Self hosted runner issue wrt bad submodules - solution cleanup working space.

* Fix format with npm run format output

* Add mock implementation for new function submoduleStatus

* Add 2  test cases for submodule status.

* Codeql-Action Analyse revert v1 to v2

---------

Co-authored-by: Bassem Dghaidi &lt;568794+Link-@users.noreply.github.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: sminnie &lt;minnie@sankhe.com&gt;</content>
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* Fix Self hosted runner issue wrt bad submodules - solution cleanup working space.

* Fix format with npm run format output

* Add mock implementation for new function submoduleStatus

* Add 2  test cases for submodule status.

* Codeql-Action Analyse revert v1 to v2

---------

Co-authored-by: Bassem Dghaidi &lt;568794+Link-@users.noreply.github.com&gt;
Co-authored-by: sminnie &lt;minnie@sankhe.com&gt;</pre>
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