Confused with checkout@master when base branch is not master

[Shekharrajak]

We are creating an action called deploy and current branch is newsite so as per this documentation we want to use newsite branch but if I don't specify the branch then also it works.

Refer: numpy/numpy.org#46 (comment)

[thboop]

Hey @Shekharrajak ,

When you invoke an action using uses: actions/checkout@master
You are saying, I would like to run the checkout action's master branch code. The comment chain here is correct:
numpy/numpy.org#46 (comment)

We are working an on update to allow you to more easily run other git commands inside git, such as fetching a different remote branch. You can see the status of that work here: #56

I'm going to close this issue, but feel free to reopen it if you have any more questions!