Checkout: How to checkout the current branch?

[zeke]

I want to set up a job that checks out the branch that was pushed. Is it possible to do something like this?

- uses: actions/checkout@${GITHUB_REF}

Reference: https://help.github.com/en/articles/virtual-environments-for-github-actions#environment-variables

[TingluoHuang]

try:

- uses: actions/checkout@master
  with:
    ref: ${{ github.ref }}

[TingluoHuang]

BTW, if you just do - uses: actions/checkout@master, it will checkout the GITHUB_SHA, the @master is for versioning this checkout action

[zeke]

Ah thanks! Should I open a PR to add something to the README for this use case?

[TingluoHuang]

sure.

[zeke]

Opened a PR: https://github.com/actions/checkout/pull/21

[fbartho]

PR is already merged, so this issue could be closed!

[ethomson]

Thanks, @zeke!