GitHub Actions: Getting All the Commits

Today I learned something new. I tried using GitHub Actions to check the dates of commits in a repository. To my surprise, it didn’t work correctly, but it worked fine on my computer.

After looking around, I found out that GitHub Actions only fetches the latest commits from your repository, which is called a shallow clone.

To access the entire history of commits, tags, and branches, you need to specify it in the actions/checkout action like this:

- uses: actions/checkout@v4
  with:
    fetch-depth: 0