[GH-ISSUE #427] Checks out too much of the git repository #297

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opened 2026-03-01 21:42:09 +03:00 by kerem · 1 comment

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2026-03-01 21:42:09 +03:00

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Originally created by @mosesn on GitHub (Nov 20, 2020).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/427

I was debugging a problem where we were seeing "unrelated file histories" on a github action. The root of the problem ended up being that we were using git fetch --depth=1 and should not have been specifying a depth. However, when I tried to reproduce the problem with nektos/act, I was unable to. Tbh why this failed is still somewhat mysterious to me, but it does seem to be a discrepancy between how github actions works and how nektos/act works.

This is the problematic line:

github.com/twitter/dodo@c89e28eb0d/.github/workflows/merge.yml (L23)

And here is the failing github action:
https://github.com/twitter/dodo/runs/1409487703?check_suite_focus=true#step:3:9

Originally created by @mosesn on GitHub (Nov 20, 2020). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/nektos/act/issues/427 I was debugging a problem where we were seeing "unrelated file histories" on a github action. The root of the problem ended up being that we were using `git fetch --depth=1` and should not have been specifying a depth. However, when I tried to reproduce the problem with nektos/act, I was unable to. Tbh why this failed is still somewhat mysterious to me, but it does seem to be a discrepancy between how github actions works and how nektos/act works. This is the problematic line: https://github.com/twitter/dodo/blob/c89e28eb0dd67b083a36a5b8d2a37fadcdf0efdb/.github/workflows/merge.yml#L23 And here is the failing github action: https://github.com/twitter/dodo/runs/1409487703?check_suite_focus=true#step:3:9

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@github-actions[bot] commented on GitHub (Jan 16, 2021):

Issue is stale and will be closed in 14 days unless there is new activity

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