Checkout time increased after cleaning(deleting) up branches in our repo

[sameerseekala1]

We have recently cleaned up branches in our repo recently and branches count came down from 1200 to 530. We did this activity to bring down the time taken by actions/checkout@v4 ste but after cleaning up i noticed checkout action time increased almost douled. Did something changed in the checkout process on your end on this weekend or are we missing anything please suggest.

Before cleanup:

After Cleanup:

Configuration in the workflow:

uses: actions/checkout@v4
with:
fetch-depth: 0
repository: SunRun/crmdx-blue
token: ***
ssh-strict: true
ssh-user: git
persist-credentials: true
clean: true
sparse-checkout-cone-mode: true
fetch-tags: false
show-progress: true
lfs: false
submodules: false
set-safe-directory: true

[sameerseekala1]

@joshmgross Can you plz help with this?

[joshmgross]

👋 Hey @sameerseekala1,

I would recommend going through GitHub Support for this sort of question - https://support.github.com/

That way we can get more details about your repository and route this to the right team for further investigation.

[joshmgross]

It would also be worth validating if the recent actions/checkout release impacted you.

Could you pin your workflow to v4.2.0 instead of v4 to validate if this is an issue with v4.2.1?

[sameerseekala1]

@joshmgross Updated workflow to v4.2.0 but i still see chechout is taking more than 10 mins.