[bug] 'fetch-depth: 0' always miss current tag

[Freed-Wu]

"on":
  push:
    paths-ignore:
      - "**.md"
  pull_request:
    paths-ignore:
      - "**.md"
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0

Then

git tag 0.0.3
git push --tags

Expected: in CI machine, git describe will return 0.0.3
Actual: 0.0.2-1-ged78cae

[Freed-Wu]

More detail:

I create a perl project, in its Makefile.PL, I write:

my $VERSION = `git describe`;
chomp $VERSION;

However, I find git describe always return some 0.0.1-1-g3c8d998s, not true 0.0.2.

If I change to:

my $VERSION = `git tag`;
chomp $VERSION;
$VERSION =~ s/.*\n//g;

It looks can work.

[Freed-Wu]

Oh, I see. We must use $GITHUB_REF_NAME to get 0.0.2 in github action yaml or Makefile.PL, not git describe.

[armandas]

Also, see this answer on SO: https://stackoverflow.com/a/74224803/1024