The checkout action cannot be configured so that it ensure the presence of a local master branch.

Also it forces the --no-tags option, while there should be the possibility to get a repo tags.

Without these two (master branch and tags) the notable GitVersion tool, used to version artifacts, does not work.
If I explicitly add to the workflow

    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
    - run: |
        git fetch --tags
        git branch --create-reflog master origin/master

then it works.

The expected behaviour would be setting an additional parameter at the checkout action, e.g.

    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
      with:

        tags: true

and the master branch should always be available.