Merge 02ade5d400ff291405e3aa22ada1a372ec60a58e into eef61447b9ff4aafe5dcd4e0bbf5d482be7e7871

This workflow file publishes new action releases to the immutable action package of the same name as this repo.

This is part of the Immutable Actions project which is not yet fully released to the public. First party actions like this one are part of our initial testing of this feature.

.github/workflows/publish-immutable-actions.yml

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+name: 'Publish Immutable Action Version'
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [published]
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      contents: read
+      id-token: write
+      packages: write
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checking out
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Publish
+        id: publish
+        uses: actions/publish-immutable-action@0.0.3

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## v4.2.1
+* Check out other refs/* by commit if provided, fall back to ref by @orhantoy in https://github.com/actions/checkout/pull/1924
+
 ## v4.2.0
 
 * Add Ref and Commit outputs by @lucacome in https://github.com/actions/checkout/pull/1180

__test__/ref-helper.test.ts

@@ -77,6 +77,16 @@ describe('ref-helper tests', () => {
     expect(checkoutInfo.startPoint).toBeFalsy()
   })
 
+  it('getCheckoutInfo refs/ without commit', async () => {
+    const checkoutInfo = await refHelper.getCheckoutInfo(
+      git,
+      'refs/non-standard-ref',
+      ''
+    )
+    expect(checkoutInfo.ref).toBe('refs/non-standard-ref')
+    expect(checkoutInfo.startPoint).toBeFalsy()
+  })
+
   it('getCheckoutInfo unqualified branch only', async () => {
     git.branchExists = jest.fn(async (remote: boolean, pattern: string) => {
       return true

dist/index.js

@@ -2005,8 +2005,8 @@ function getCheckoutInfo(git, ref, commit) {
             result.ref = ref;
         }
         // refs/
-        else if (upperRef.startsWith('REFS/') && commit) {
-            result.ref = commit;
+        else if (upperRef.startsWith('REFS/')) {
+            result.ref = commit ? commit : ref;
         }
         // Unqualified ref, check for a matching branch or tag
         else {

package-lock.json

@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 {
   "name": "checkout",
-  "version": "4.2.0",
+  "version": "4.2.1",
   "lockfileVersion": 3,
   "requires": true,
   "packages": {
     "": {
       "name": "checkout",
-      "version": "4.2.0",
+      "version": "4.2.1",
       "license": "MIT",
       "dependencies": {
         "@actions/core": "^1.10.1",

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "checkout",
-  "version": "4.2.0",
+  "version": "4.2.1",
   "description": "checkout action",
   "main": "lib/main.js",
   "scripts": {

src/git-source-provider.ts

@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ export async function getSource(settings: IGitSourceSettings): Promise<void> {
 
       // When all history is fetched, the ref we're interested in may have moved to a different
       // commit (push or force push). If so, fetch again with a targeted refspec.
-      if (!(await refHelper.testRef(git, settings.ref, settings.commit))) {
+      if (!settings.refs.startsWith("refs/tags") && !(await refHelper.testRef(git, settings.ref, settings.commit))) {
         refSpec = refHelper.getRefSpec(settings.ref, settings.commit)
         await git.fetch(refSpec, fetchOptions)
       }

src/ref-helper.ts

@@ -46,8 +46,8 @@ export async function getCheckoutInfo(
     result.ref = ref
   }
   // refs/
-  else if (upperRef.startsWith('REFS/') && commit) {
-    result.ref = commit
+  else if (upperRef.startsWith('REFS/')) {
+    result.ref = commit ? commit : ref
   }
   // Unqualified ref, check for a matching branch or tag
   else {