checkout: Fetching tags doesn't work

I have tried almost every configuration of this action I can think of.

I am running:

- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- run: |
    git fetch --prune --unshallow
- run: |
    echo $(git tag -l)

I expect to see the tags from my repository in the output.

I am currently seeing nothing.

About this issue

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State: closed
Created 4 years ago
Reactions: 3
Comments: 15 (9 by maintainers)

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git describe fails with "fatal: No names found, cannot describe anything." - Stack Overflow

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Revert "Revert "Fix CI (see actions/checkout#23)"" This using suggested in actions/checkout#206 way to fetch tags. This reverts commit 6a306641d7e0cb136f5366697e69a8c81592ccaa. — committed to skirpichev/diofant by skirpichev 4 years ago
Revert "Revert "Fix CI (see actions/checkout#23)"" This using suggested in actions/checkout#206 way to fetch tags. This reverts commit 6a306641d7e0cb136f5366697e69a8c81592ccaa. — committed to skirpichev/diofant by skirpichev 4 years ago
fix(gh-action): version interpolation with setuptools_scm Giving up, until some clues are given here: https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/206 — committed to templateflow/python-client by oesteban 4 years ago
fix git describe / sbt-dynver https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/206 — committed to bjaglin/sbt-scalafix by github-brice-jaglin 4 years ago
Fetch git tags By default, Github Actions checkout does a shallow clone and does not fetch tag information, that we need for versioning. See https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/206 — committed to oaubert/advene by oaubert 3 years ago
Try https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/206 — committed to wxFormBuilder/wxFormBuilder by sodevel 3 years ago
Fetch tags after checkout The checkout action does not fetch any tags resulting in `git describe` failing. The recommended solution `git fetch --prune --unshallow --tags` of https://github.com/action... — committed to wxFormBuilder/wxFormBuilder by sodevel 3 years ago
fix error using https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/206#issuecomment-607496604 — committed to vikineema/deafrica-sandbox-notebooks by vikineema 2 years ago
chore(release): unshallow tags (#983)  ## Proposed changes GitHub does some funky stuff for the checkout. This seems to fix it... — committed to coveo/cli by louis-bompart 2 years ago
Configure `actions/checkout` to also check out tags, so they can be used to generate the changelog, with thanks to https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/206#issuecomment-614129126 — committed to volkertb/SBEMU by volkertb 5 months ago
Check out tags, so Git log can be used to generate the changelog, with thanks to https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/206#issuecomment-614129126 — committed to volkertb/SBEMU by volkertb 5 months ago
Check out tags, so Git log can be used to generate the changelog, with thanks to https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/206#issuecomment-614129126 — committed to volkertb/SBEMU by volkertb 5 months ago
Check out tags, so Git log can be used to generate the changelog, with thanks to https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/206#issuecomment-614129126 — committed to volkertb/SBEMU by volkertb 5 months ago

Most upvoted comments

what about git fetch --prune --unshallow --tags ?

+15

ericsciple on Apr 1, 2020

This worked for me (at first I tried the readme instructions):

-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0
       - name: Get all git tags
-        run: git fetch --depth=1 origin +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*
+        run: git fetch --prune --unshallow --tags

+14

jasonkuhrt on Apr 22, 2020

This works for me:

on: push
jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: [ubuntu-latest]
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          repository: thoward27/semantic-release
      - run: |
          git fetch --unshallow --tags
          echo $?
          git tag --list

ericsciple on Apr 15, 2020

I also tried the README and then found the answer at https://github.com/actions/checkout/issues/206#issuecomment-607496604 . Would be nice to fix the README. Thanks for making GitHub Actions accessible for OSS!

Unlike others, I use fork.

pllim on May 20, 2020