This version is supposed to
> Fetch all history for all tags and branches when fetch-depth=0
We leave the tags fetch in place so that actions _in cloned repos_
work. Cloned repos' tags do not necessarily match adafruit/circuitpython,
but we want version reporting to be able to use adafruit/circuitpython
tags when they are most relevant according to "git describe"'s heuristics.
Submodules are different, as they always point to the repo specified
in .gitmodules, so they don't need special handling to get the most
relevant tags.
We were seeing actions failures where the cache would be restored
"successfully" but then "Install CircuitPython deps" would fail:
# Step "Fetch IDF tool cache"
Cache Size: ~247 MB (259277989 B)
/bin/tar -xz -f /home/runner/work/_temp/a990f24d-c365-4685-b739-10e052812c81/cache.tgz -C /home/runner/work/circuitpython/circuitpython/.idf_tools
Cache restored from key: Linux-idf-tools-731ed12bcdfbfa8b5dd37e03703992271b3ce85dd629e45130f80f43b84ce3a8
...
# Step "Install CircuitPython deps"
Adding ESP-IDF tools to PATH...
Not using an unsupported version of tool cmake found in PATH: 3.17.0.
I checked locally, and (even when dist/* is removed) it is very quick to
run each of the `idf_tools install` steps, about 2s total.
Try doing this to see whether it fixes the CI problems.
'brew' apparently introduced an incompatible change, where even
"--force" does not actually make the commands available in the default path.
Also switch to a numbered macos release instead of "latest", though this
did not save us from breaking changes in brew or other preinstalled sw.
In order to get tags, including in submodules, we use our own fetching
procedure on top of checkout@v2.
A problem occuring in about 1% of jobs was that some submodules inexplicably
did not have an "origin" remote configured. "git submodule sync"
configures the "origin" remote in those cases. No cause for the problem
was determined.
Besides keeping up to date on actions/checkout, @v2 is supposed to fix a bug
where "re-run" of a pull request would fail checking out the code.
