sparse-checkout argument of actions/checkout causes actionlint error

[jamiekt]

Making you aware of a possible bug.

actions/checkout recently received support for sparse-checkout. This was added in actions/checkout#1317 and is documented at https://github.com/actions/checkout#fetch-only-a-single-file

I tried using it in one of my workflows like so:

            steps:
                - name: Checkout some repo
                  uses: actions/checkout@v3
                  with:
                      repository: owner/repo
                      sparse-checkout: |
                          .env

and actionlint threw an error:

.github/workflows/workflow.yml:35:23: input "sparse-checkout" is not defined in action "actions/checkout@v3". available inputs are "clean", "fetch-depth", "github-server-url", "lfs", "path", "persist-credentials", "ref", "repository", "set-safe-directory", "ssh-key", "ssh-known-hosts", "ssh-strict", "submodules", "token" [action]

[rhysd]

Could you provide your actionlint version?

[jamiekt]

Apologies, I should have done that shouldn't I?

its run from super-linter v4 (github/super-linter:v4). The output from running

docker run --entrypoint /bin/bash github/super-linter:v4 -c 'actionlint --version'

at the time of writing is:

1.6.22
installed by building from source
built with go1.19.2 compiler for linux/amd64

Confirmed by looking at https://github.com/super-linter/super-linter/blob/985ef206aaca4d560cb9ee2af2b42ba44adc1d55/Dockerfile#L23

[rhysd]

That's very old. Current latest version is v1.6.25. I'm not super-linter user. So please ask the question at super-linter repository.