“Git fatal: ref HEAD is not a symbolic ref” while using maven release plugin

Question

I get the following error output while running the Maven release plugin prepare step i.e. mvn release:prepare --batch-mode -DreleaseVersion=1.1.2 -DdevelopmentVersion=

Answer 1

For GitHub actions you can setup actions/checkout@v2 with ref: master

steps:
  - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    with:
      ref: master