# actions/checkout

> 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.

- Magnitude: 1.1 out of 10 — Steady
- Stars: 8,966 total · +2 stars measured 2026-10-24, 11:39–18:48 UTC, ≈ 3 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Developer tools · Language: TypeScript · License: MIT · Created: 2019-07-19 · Last push: 2026-10-17
- GitHub: https://github.com/actions/checkout · Homepage: https://github.com/features/actions · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/actions/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

## Why it’s here

- 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.

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 2,733
- Issues and pull requests: 1,797
- Watchers: 200
- Average over the last week: 4 per day
- Usual pace: 4 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 0
- Latest release: v7.0.1 (2026-07-20)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-25 … 2026-10-24: 3, 0, 5, 1, 9, 2, 6, 4, 4, 6, 1, 1, 3, 4, 2, 2, 1, 3, 5, 2, 7, 3, 3, 3, 2, 1, 2, 8, 6, 2

## Spotted in now

- GitHub Trending TypeScript today: #21, +4 stars

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-10-24 18:51 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.