actions/checkout
- Total stars
- 8,966
- Today
- +2since 11:39 UTC
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About the project
Official GitHub Action that checks out a repository into the workflow workspace. It lets CI/CD steps access project code, with support for tokens, SSH, submodules and sparse-checkout.
Useful for
- Configure repository checkout in a GitHub Actions workflow
- Perform a shallow clone with limited history to speed up CI
- Set up PAT or SSH key authentication for private repositories
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate. Read the original README →
Star growth looks organic. Data as of October 24, 2026, 18:51 UTC.
The star-growth assessment does not verify whether the project is safe to run.
Stars per day
Bars show stars per UTC day; the line is a moving average of available history. Gaps mean missing data, not zero growth. Today's bar is incomplete. Red marks spike days.
Why it’s trending
- Star-counter measurements on 2026-10-24 (UTC), 11:39–18:48: 8964 → 8966 stars (+2). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +3 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #21, +4 stars.
Measured growth: the last 7 completed days
New stars over 7 days: 25. +9% versus the preceding 7 days.
Daily measurements · UTC
- October 17, 2026
- 3
- October 18, 2026
- 3
- October 19, 2026
- 2
- October 20, 2026
- 1
- October 21, 2026
- 2
- October 22, 2026
- 8
- October 23, 2026
- 6
Largest measured day in the last 30 days: 9 · September 29, 2026. Days with data: 30.
Completed days come from GitHub star history; today and forecasts are excluded from this comparison. History checked: October 24, 2026, 18:50 UTC. Sources and measurement limits →
Three GitHub discoveries in each edition
What they do, why they are gaining interest, and what to check before using them.
Editions at 10:00, 16:00, 22:00 MSK.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 8,966
- Today
- +2 stars measured 2026-10-24, 11:39–18:48 UTC, ≈ 3 by evening
- Forks
- 2,733
- Issues and pull requests
- 1,797
- Watchers
- 200
- Language
- TypeScript
- License
- MIT
- Latest release
- v7.0.1 · July 20, 2026
- Created
- July 19, 2019
- Last push
- October 17, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
Spotted in
- October 24, 2026GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #21, +4 stars
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