[Documentation] Update actions documentation to note that secondary checkouts will wipe the first checkout #978

unlikelyzero · 2022-10-21T18:04:01Z

I spent a considerable amount of hours trying to track down a networking bug which turned out to be just an oddity with the current github actions/checkout multi-repo documentation.

This preserves both environments: the parent project which sources the GHA and the secondary repo

      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: "16"
     - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          repository: unlikelyzero/quickstart
          ref: fix-network
          path: 'quickstart'

This will wipe the first at the instance that actions/checkout is run -- including any running services in that workspace.

      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
        with:
          repository: unlikelyzero/quickstart
          ref: fix-network
          path: 'quickstart'
      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
      - uses: actions/setup-node@v3
        with:
          node-version: "16"

I think the multi-repo readme should be updated with language to prevent headaches and heartburn.

unlikelyzero linked a pull request Oct 21, 2022 that will close this issue

Improve multi-repo checkout behavior documentation #979

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[Documentation] Update actions documentation to note that secondary checkouts will wipe the first checkout #978

[Documentation] Update actions documentation to note that secondary checkouts will wipe the first checkout #978

unlikelyzero commented Oct 21, 2022

[Documentation] Update actions documentation to note that secondary checkouts will wipe the first checkout #978

[Documentation] Update actions documentation to note that secondary checkouts will wipe the first checkout #978

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unlikelyzero commented Oct 21, 2022