Pinned version checks out main not version

[rohun-apex]

Summary

Using ansible-lint at a pinned version appears not to work, e.g. ansible/ansible-lint@v25.8.2. It will use main.

Issue Type

• Bug Report

OS / ENVIRONMENT

Ansible lint version: Attempting to use v25.8.2 via GHA tool. Actually using main because of the apparent bug.

ansible-lint 25.8.3.dev19 using ansible-core:2.19.2 ansible-compat:25.8.1 ruamel-yaml:0.18.15 ruamel-yaml-clib:0.2.12

OS: GHA's runs-on: ubuntu-latest.

• ansible installation method: pip
• ansible-lint installation method: pip

STEPS TO REPRODUCE

1. Create a GHA job to run lint on a repo (see below code block).
2. Create any valid code for the GHA to checkout and lint.

name: ansible-lint
on: [pull_request]
jobs:
build:
name: Ansible Lint
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:

• uses: actions/checkout@v4
• name: Run ansible-lint
• uses: ansible/ansible-lint@v25.8.2

Desired Behavior

Want it to checkout the ref I specify via ansible-lint@version.

Actual Behavior

It checks out main.

Code changes

I have made a PR to attempt to fix. Please feel free to modify as appropriate.
#4774

[alisonlhart]

PR has been merged! Closing as tentative resolution.