checkout@v4 occasionally stuck on checkout

[jaronoff97]

Hello! I have a fairly straightforward use case, but I'm seeing a checkout that takes far longer than it should. Usually my time is under 10s, but for this run it was over 10 minutes!

  <jobname>:
    name: <name>
    if: github.event.pull_request.draft == false
    needs: setup
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    permissions:
      contents: read
      pull-requests: write
    steps:
      - name: Set up repository
        uses: actions/checkout@v4

This has now happened in three separate instances in three different jobs. Please let me know if there's any extra context i can provide.

[jaronoff97]

Within a second of clicking on the action it somehow resumes and completes, i don't think it's just my DOM reloading

[paillou]

I faced the same problem, and when it happens and you try to cancel the workflow then it waits for this checkout step to be finished... which is a shame (and costly)

[davi020]

any solutions?

[jaronoff97]

I just reverted to v3 and have been fine.

[palexvs]

same, added timeout-minutes: 0.5 to fail faster. But looking in any retry mechanism