[Feature] fetch HEAD without tags

[solarmosaic-kflorence]

Is this feature missing in the latest version?

• I'm using the latest release

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Using this on a monorepo with a lot of tags, it will cause minor slowness and more output over time (there are already hundreds of tags).

Describe the solution you'd like?

Tags don't seem to be necessary, so fetching can most likely be performed with --no-tags.

https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/blob/main/entrypoint.sh#L52

Describe alternatives you've considered?

No response

Anything else?

No response

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[jackton1]

Fetching tags would be due to specifying

      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

See: https://github.com/actions/checkout#fetch-all-history-for-all-tags-and-branches

You can optionally switch to

      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
        with:
          fetch-depth: 2

[solarmosaic-kflorence]

Actually I'm just using:

- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- id: changed-files
  uses: tj-actions/changed-files@v10.1
  with:
    files: \.md$

But the fetching of tags comes from this action, see the link I left above: https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/blob/main/entrypoint.sh#L52 (or somewhere else in the "Getting HEAD info..." section).

[solarmosaic-kflorence]

Here is the full output:

Run tj-actions/changed-files@v10.1
  with:
    files: \.md$
    token: ***
    separator:  
    sha: 82ea931449f71f36c9787b63c0fa2a6a7dd6c4ec
Run bash $GITHUB_ACTION_PATH/sourcefiles.sh
  bash $GITHUB_ACTION_PATH/sourcefiles.sh
  shell: /usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0}
  env:
    INPUT_FILES: \.md$
    INPUT_FILES_FROM_SOURCE_FILE: 
changed-files-from-source-file
  Input Files: \.md$
  All Unique Input files: \.md$
Run bash $GITHUB_ACTION_PATH/entrypoint.sh
  bash $GITHUB_ACTION_PATH/entrypoint.sh
  shell: /usr/bin/bash --noprofile --norc -e -o pipefail {0}
  env:
    GITHUB_SERVER_URL: https://github.com
    GITHUB_REPOSITORY: XXX/YYY
    GITHUB_BASE_REF: master
    INPUT_SHA: 82ea931449f71f36c9787b63c0fa2a6a7dd6c4ec
    INPUT_BASE_SHA: 
    INPUT_TOKEN: ***
    INPUT_FILES: \.md$
    INPUT_SEPARATOR:  
    INPUT_PATH: 
changed-files
  Resolving repository path...
  Getting HEAD info...
  From https://github.com/XXX/YYY
   * [new branch]        master         -> master
   * LOTS OF TAGS [REDACTED]
  Retrieving changes between d6b53ca63502675cb89c7f9dba3ae85795bb615f (master) → 82ea931449f71f36c9787b63c0fa2a6a7dd6c4ec (feature/linting)
  Input files: \.md$
  Checking for file changes: "\.md$"...
  Matching modified files: [REDACTED]
  Non Matching modified files: [REDACTED]
  Matching deleted files: 
  Added files: 
  Copied files: 
  Deleted files: 
  Modified files: [REDACTED]
  Renamed files: 
  Type Changed files: 
  Unmerged files: 
  Unknown files: 
  All changed files: [REDACTED]

[jackton1]

You're right, I can confirm that this is the case for pull_request* based events

[solarmosaic-kflorence]

@jackton1 I guess this needs a release before it can be used. Feel free to poke me when that happens (I'm already using @v11 so should get it automatically when it rolls out).

[jackton1]

@solarmosaic-kflorence A new release should be available now https://github.com/tj-actions/changed-files/releases/tag/v11.1. Thanks

[solarmosaic-kflorence]

Fix confirmed, thanks!