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Action for checking out a repo

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Dominant language: TypeScript
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Jul 20, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 8/100

actions/checkout#2576 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
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Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100

actions/checkout#2574 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2026
`path` checkout follows a repository-controlled symlink outside `GITHUB_WORKSPACE` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

actions/checkout#2573 · Opened Sep 12, 2026
https://www.snapchat.com/add/fnn_bdllh8286 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100

actions/checkout#2567 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
اختراق سنابa_ax1080 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

actions/checkout#2566 · Opened Sep 5, 2026
Vethos response Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

actions/checkout#2561 · Opened Aug 28, 2026
4618 (500×261) Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

actions/checkout#2559 · Opened Aug 23, 2026
Feature request: support Git LFS include and exclude filters Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

actions/checkout#2556 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 10, 2026
> > https://github.com/riks-server/ZsK Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100

actions/checkout#2546 · Opened Jul 30, 2026
chek Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100

actions/checkout#2545 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 29, 2026
v6.1.0 missing from CHANGELOG Open

Difficulty 1/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 68/100

actions/checkout#2542 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 27, 2026
hehw Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

actions/checkout#2541 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 26, 2026
talledos Vargas Carlos A. Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 5/100

actions/checkout#2540 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 25, 2026
Is `v7.0.1` a security update? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/checkout#2539 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 25, 2026
Checkout under `parallel` often fails with "Unexpected end of JSON input" Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/checkout#2484 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jun 26, 2026
New GitHub REST API request to /repos/{owner}/{repo}/hash-algorithm is causing API rate limiting related failures Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/checkout#2450 · Opened Jun 6, 2026
actions/checkout fails on Windows runners when repository contains branch prefixes differing only by case Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

actions/checkout#2448 · Opened Jun 5, 2026
Checkouts extremely slow or timing out from EU Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/checkout#2441 · 26 comments · 69 reactions · Opened May 24, 2026
Should set `maintenance.auto = false` instead of (or in addition to) `gc.auto = 0` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

actions/checkout#2437 · 2 reactions · Opened May 20, 2026
Errors from initializing the gitCommandManager are ignored and never displayed Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 72/100

actions/checkout#2435 · 1 reaction · Opened May 19, 2026
Gracefully handle 500 server errors via retry with exponential backoff. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/checkout#2429 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened May 11, 2026
Multiple checkout failing Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/checkout#2426 · Opened May 10, 2026
Unable to create tags in another repo with v6 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/checkout#2424 · Opened Apr 29, 2026
vscode warning Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

actions/checkout#2423 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 28, 2026
Github Enterprise Cloud does not work with submodules (git insteadOf wrong) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

actions/checkout#2417 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 17, 2026
New issues Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

actions/checkout#2416 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 16, 2026
Action switches to wrong ref when creating PR with same source branch to 2 different target branches Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/checkout#2415 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 16, 2026
support --quiet Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/checkout#2409 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Apr 11, 2026
Improving code Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

actions/checkout#2408 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 10, 2026
Women's Wellness after 40 Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 1/100

actions/checkout#2405 · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 9, 2026
`CodeQL Action v3 will be deprecated in December 2026` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/checkout#2403 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 3, 2026
```actions/checkout@v4```: checkout used commit from another repository Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/checkout#2401 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 31, 2026
v6 credential `includeIf` matching fails on self-hosted runners with symlinked `_work` directory Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 64/100

actions/checkout#2393 · 9 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 25, 2026
checkout@v6 credentials don't work with Docker container actions Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/checkout#2386 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 12, 2026
`A branch or tag with the name` ... `could not be found` shouldn't be displayed when repository doesn't exist Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/checkout#2380 · Opened Feb 26, 2026
"The ref may have been updated after the workflow was triggered." is unhelpful for `repository 'https://github.com/MyRepoName/MyRepoName/' not found` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/checkout#2378 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 25, 2026
SonarQube Server does not analyze Git submodules in Pull Requests Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/checkout#2373 · Opened Feb 19, 2026
"The ref may have been updated after the workflow was triggered." is unhelpful and feels like a regression -- breaking workflows Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 32/100

actions/checkout#2372 · Opened Feb 17, 2026
Root files not checked out when using sparse checkout Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

actions/checkout#2366 · 4 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Jan 27, 2026
Verbose log output (tags are fetched even with --no-tags) Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

actions/checkout#2362 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jan 22, 2026
checkout@v6 credentials don't work with Docker container actions - no workaround available Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/checkout#2359 · 14 comments · 15 reactions · Opened Jan 11, 2026
"Error: fatal: could not read Username" for public repositories Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

actions/checkout#2351 · 7 comments · Opened Dec 22, 2025
v6 clean: false still deletes my files that were checkedout from other directory. Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 58/100

actions/checkout#2348 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 18, 2025
Forced case sensitivity on Windows based runners Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

actions/checkout#2345 · 6 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 12, 2025
Feature Request: Add option to configure long paths on checkout Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 62/100

actions/checkout#2335 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 4, 2025
Error in PowerShell Archive module while using Run actions/checkout@v4 Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

actions/checkout#2331 · 3 comments · Opened Dec 2, 2025
Use immutable GitHub release feature Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

actions/checkout#2316 · 9 comments · 45 reactions · Opened Nov 24, 2025
`fetch-tags` argument is incorrect Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/checkout#2309 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 19, 2025
No handling for `fatal: could not fetch ... from promisor remote` Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

actions/checkout#2306 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 14, 2025
Support reference clones Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 42/100

actions/checkout#2303 · 3 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Nov 12, 2025

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