Release v6: Fix tag handling: preserve annotations and explicit fetch-tags (#2356) · actions/checkout (original) (raw)

This PR fixes several issues with tag handling in the checkout action:

1. fetch-tags: true now works (fixes #1471)

   • Tags refspec is now included in getRefSpec() when fetchTags=true
   • Previously tags were only fetched during a separate fetch that was overwritten by the main fetch

2. Tag checkout preserves annotations (fixes #290)

   • Tags are fetched via refspec (+refs/tags/:refs/tags/) instead of --tags flag
   • This fetches the actual tag objects, preserving annotations

3. Tag checkout with fetch-tags: true no longer fails (fixes #1467)

   • When checking out a tag with fetchTags=true, only the wildcard refspec is used (specific tag refspec is redundant)

Changes:

• src/ref-helper.ts: getRefSpec() now accepts fetchTags parameter and prepends tags refspec when true
• src/git-command-manager.ts: fetch() simplified to always use --no-tags, tags are fetched explicitly via refspec
• src/git-source-provider.ts: passes fetchTags to getRefSpec()
• Added E2E test for fetch-tags option

Related #1471, #1467, #290