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* update readme for v3

* update readme with changes

* nit grammar
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thboop committed Mar 1, 2022
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<a href="https://github.com/actions/checkout"><img alt="GitHub Actions status" src="https://github.com/actions/checkout/workflows/test-local/badge.svg"></a>
</p>

# Checkout V2
# Checkout V3

This action checks-out your repository under `$GITHUB_WORKSPACE`, so your workflow can access it.

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# What's new

- Improved performance
- Fetches only a single commit by default
- Script authenticated git commands
- Auth token persisted in the local git config
- Supports SSH
- Creates a local branch
- No longer detached HEAD when checking out a branch
- Improved layout
- The input `path` is always relative to $GITHUB_WORKSPACE
- Aligns better with container actions, where $GITHUB_WORKSPACE gets mapped in
- Fallback to REST API download
- When Git 2.18 or higher is not in the PATH, the REST API will be used to download the files
- When using a job container, the container's PATH is used

Refer [here](https://github.com/actions/checkout/blob/v1/README.md) for previous versions.
- Updated to the node16 runtime by default
- This requires a minimum [Actions Runner](https://github.com/actions/runner/releases/tag/v2.285.0) version of v2.285.0 to run, which is by default available in GHES 3.4 or later.

# Usage

<!-- start usage -->
```yaml
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
# Repository name with owner. For example, actions/checkout
# Default: ${{ github.repository }}
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## Fetch all history for all tags and branches

```yaml
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
fetch-depth: 0
```

## Checkout a different branch

```yaml
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
ref: my-branch
```

## Checkout HEAD^

```yaml
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
fetch-depth: 2
- run: git checkout HEAD^
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```yaml
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
path: main

- name: Checkout tools repo
uses: actions/checkout@v2
uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
repository: my-org/my-tools
path: my-tools
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```yaml
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
uses: actions/checkout@v3

- name: Checkout tools repo
uses: actions/checkout@v2
uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
repository: my-org/my-tools
path: my-tools
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```yaml
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@v2
uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
path: main

- name: Checkout private tools
uses: actions/checkout@v2
uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
repository: my-org/my-private-tools
token: ${{ secrets.GH_PAT }} # `GH_PAT` is a secret that contains your PAT
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## Checkout pull request HEAD commit instead of merge commit

```yaml
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
with:
ref: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
```
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build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
```

## Push a commit using the built-in token
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build:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- uses: actions/checkout@v2
- uses: actions/checkout@v3
- run: |
date > generated.txt
git config user.name github-actions
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}

updateUsage(
'actions/checkout@v2',
'actions/checkout@v3',
path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'action.yml'),
path.join(__dirname, '..', '..', 'README.md')
)

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