Error on checkout from empty repository

[andry81]

Seems v2 and v3 could not handle empty repository:

Fetching the repository
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +refs/heads/master*:refs/remotes/origin/master* +refs/tags/master*:refs/tags/master*
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 1
  Waiting 15 seconds before trying again
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +refs/heads/master*:refs/remotes/origin/master* +refs/tags/master*:refs/tags/master*
  The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 1
  Waiting 13 seconds before trying again
  /usr/bin/git -c protocol.version=2 fetch --no-tags --prune --progress --no-recurse-submodules --depth=1 origin +refs/heads/master*:refs/remotes/origin/master* +refs/tags/master*:refs/tags/master*
  Error: The process '/usr/bin/git' failed with exit code 1

May be needs to check the remote on reference existence before fetch it?

[andry81]

There is an extension to this action script with additional features which does use mkdir + git init if a remote repository exists but has no any branch reference: https://github.com/andry81-devops/gh-action--git-checkout