Why is actions/checkout required for API keepalive?

[dktapps]

I was under the impression I could just throw this action directly into its own job, but it seems like it doesn't work under default conditions without actions/checkout in a preceding step.

[gautamkrishnar]

@dktapps checkout is required to calculate the last commit date and time, to prevent calling the GitHub API unnecessarily.

[dktapps]

That makes sense. But if the repo isn't committed to for a long time, is this going to make much difference? From the look of the code, it will call the API every time the workflow is run if the latest commit is more than 45 days old.

It's not really important to me, but I just wonder if there's a better way to achieve this.

[gautamkrishnar]

@dktapps sounds reasonable, I just added the ability to skip the check. Simply set time_elapsed or timeElapsed to 0 in whichever way you can consume the project. Now you can get rid of that checkout workflow if you want.

This is now released: https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/keepalive-workflow/releases/tag/2.0.8