GitHub Stats Cards

Version updated for https://github.com/stn1slv/github-stats-cards to version v1.2.1.

• This action is used across all versions by 1 repositories.

Action Type

This is a Composite action.

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Action Summary

This GitHub Action generates beautiful, high-quality SVG statistics cards for your GitHub profile README using Python. It automates the process of updating and displaying various metrics such as stars, commits, pull requests, issues, reviews, and contribution data. Key capabilities include 50+ themes, smart weighting for language stats, and local generation without external service dependencies.

What’s Changed

[!WARNING] v1.2.0 is broken and should not be used. It produced no card at all, and did so silently. If you pinned @v1.2.0, move to @v1.2.1.

What went wrong in 1.2.0

1.2.0 set out to fix a real bug: the action checked out its own repository with no ref, so a pinned tag ran whatever was on main. The fix used ${{ github.action_repository }} and ${{ github.action_ref }}.

Inside a composite action those contexts resolve to the innermost action, not the outer one. So the step checked out actions/checkout@v4 into the install directory, then exited without installing the CLI or generating anything.

The failure was invisible. Workflows using continue-on-error: true on their card steps, which is the pattern in this project’s own example workflow, went green while quietly regenerating nothing. The only symptom was images that stopped updating.

The fix

The action no longer checks itself out. It installs from $GITHUB_ACTION_PATH, where the runner has already placed this repository at exactly the ref the caller pinned:

run: uv pip install --system -e "$GITHUB_ACTION_PATH"

This removes the class of problem rather than patching an instance of it: there is no second resolution step left that can disagree with the pin. A test now rejects any self-checkout returning, under any spelling.

Who is affected

Everything else in v1.2.0 is unchanged and still applies.

Full changelog: https://github.com/stn1slv/github-stats-cards/compare/v1.2.0...v1.2.1

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