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Action for checking out a repo

21 mentions on Hacker News by 21 people: 8 stories, 13 comments · first 2020-05-02 · latest 2026-04-29

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  1. The actions/checkout repo still doesn't even use immutable releases so I'll believe it when I see it https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/2316
    comment by cyberclimb · 2026-04-29 · in GitHub Actions is the weakest link
  2. …issues - here's one[1] that soon celebrates its sixth birthday, despite having an available PR! [0] https://github.com/actions/checkout#note [1] https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/270#issue-6289677...
    comment by danra · 2026-04-29 · in An update on GitHub availability
  3. …on their Azure adoption and many core projects are in stasis even from community contributions. https://github.com/actions/checkout#note
    comment by roastedfunction · 2026-04-28 · in Ghostty is leaving GitHub
  4. …it is a git commit hash of the action repo that contains the transpiled/bundled javascript. Like: https://github.com/actions/checkout/tree/11bd71901bbe5b1630c... So I'm pretty sure that for the same commit hash, I'll be executing the same…
    comment by derfniw · 2026-03-23 · in GitHub appears to be struggling with measly three nines availability
  5. …which updates the action to `actions/checkout@70379aad1a8b40919ce8b382d3cd7d0315cde1d0 # v6.0.2`. https://github.com/actions/checkout/commit/70379aad1a8b40919... is not actually in `actions/checkout` but a fork, and it pulls malicious code…
    comment by mmsc · 2026-03-20 · in Aquasecurity/Trivy GitHub Repository and Homebrew Cask Compromised (again)
  6. what with actions/checkout@v4, hows that documented? https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/567#issuecomment-... GH has a `permissions:` entry and this mechanism already for internal repo action sharing. And thousands of our dollars…
    comment by Already__Taken · 2025-06-15 · in Bypassing GitHub Actions policies in the dumbest way possible
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    GitHub's checkout action is halting contributions
    story by bhupesh · 2025-06-07 · 0 comments
  8. Here is an example in the wild: https://github.com/actions/checkout/actions/workflows/publis...
    comment by esafak · 2025-05-08 · in How to harden GitHub Actions
  9. …exactly this here, with the v4 and v4.2.2 tags matching here (as of today, v4 will move in future) https://github.com/actions/checkout/tags
    comment by donatj · 2025-03-25 · in Whose code am I running in GitHub Actions?
  10. …If this resonates with you please go and give it a thumbs up :) [1]: https://github.com/actions/checkout?tab=readme-ov-file#usage [2]: https://docs.github.com/en/actions/security-for-github-actio...
    comment by onnimonni · 2025-03-15 · in Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos
  11. …something from README of the action. Let's have a look at a random official GH provided action: https://github.com/actions/checkout It lists the following snippet: `uses: actions/checkout@v4` Almost everyone will just copy paste this…
    comment by jakub_g · 2025-03-15 · in Tj-actions/changed-files GitHub Action Compromised – used by over 23K repos
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    Tell HN: GitHub doesn't cleanup spam in their own repos
    story by latexr · 2025-01-03 · 0 comments
  13. …in some general ini file? (or into a source file for that matter)? Sometimes it's not "you": https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/485
    comment by lloeki · 2024-09-09 · in Exploiting CI / CD Pipelines for fun and profit
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    Checkout v3 using node20 instead of node16
    story by josephcsible · 2024-07-11 · 0 comments
  15. ▲ 3
    Tell HN: PR GitHub Actions don't run over your commit by default
    story by filipesilva · 2023-10-19 · 0 comments
  16. …broke when they released “checkout@v4” Yes, they broke the ability for GitHub CI to checkout repos… https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/1448
    comment by Arbortheus · 2023-09-05 · in GitHub was down
  17. ▲ 3
    Can't use 'tar -xzf' extract archive file
    story by caioariede · 2023-09-04 · 0 comments
  18. ▲ 2
    Git v2.35.2 breaks actions/checkout in containers
    story by database64128 · 2022-04-13 · 0 comments
  19. ▲ 3
    GitHub Actions Stopped Working
    story by kamyarg · 2020-11-27 · 0 comments
  20. ▲ 1
    GitHub Actions checking out wrong commit
    story by blackRust · 2020-07-24 · 0 comments
  21. …GitHub. Edit: I stand somewhat corrected, seems most CI systems actually test the merged code - https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/15#issuecomment-5... which I presume includes manually merged scenarios also. That said, they don’t…
    comment by lstamour · 2020-05-02 · in Complexity Has to Live Somewhere