Add option to checkout via REST API
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Description
Currently, if git is not installed, a repo is downloaded via the GitHub REST API. An option should be added to download a repository via REST even when git is installed.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No file or test is named in the issue. Start by locating the action's option parsing and its existing REST fallback, then compare behavior when git is present versus absent. Done means an explicit option can select REST downloads even with git installed while preserving the current fallback behavior.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- git, github, github-actions, typescript
- Domain
- api, ci-cd, devops
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100