"fetch-depth: 0" doesn't fetch all branches

[vitalyk-multinarity]

I'm using the following snipped for checkout:

- name: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

but when I run 'git branch ' later I see just one branch.
Please suggest,
Thanks,
Vitaly

[chachako]

same problem

[edannenberg]

It does fetch all branch data from the remote but doesn't configure any of them locally except the current branch. If you need some other branch you can do so after the checkout action like so:

- name: Setup master branch locally without switching current branch
  run: git fetch origin master:master

[marc-hb]

but when I run 'git branch ' later I see just one branch.

That's because git branch shows local branches only. If you run git branch -a you will see remote branches too.

See also https://github.com/actions/checkout#checkout-a-different-branch

[vanZeben]

Hey @vitalyk-multinarity, thank you for your issue :)

I think both @edannenberg and @marc-hb have addressed this issue succinctly (Thank you both for that 🙏🏻), so I'm going to close this issue. If you need more assistance, or there is something that's been missed, please reopen this issue and we can take a look at it :)

[jarofgreen]

Adding a note about this to https://github.com/actions/checkout?tab=readme-ov-file#Fetch-all-history-for-all-tags-and-branches could be helpful?

[marc-hb]

I totally forgot I ever commented on this issue...

Here's a very funny, cosmic timing coincidence: if you are one of the 2.5 people interested in such topics and subscribed to this issue, you may be interested in this unexpected git 2.48 "regression" and git describe fix I just submitted yesterday:

• [SKIP CI] .github/zephyr: simplify and fix the git describe performance hack thesofproject/sof#9801

(it's NOT related to this GH action, sorry for the "noise")