Prevent persisting credentials via actions/checkout
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`actions/checkout` uses a default value of `true` for `persist-credentials`, which results in credentials being written to the Git config.
Since this snippet is meant to be exemplary, it makes sense to explicitly set `persist-credentials` to `false`. The default value is `true`.
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There are two small changes here:
persist-credentials: falsein an actual GitHub Actionpersist-credentials: falseBoth changes reflect a desired state of not writing credentials to
.git/config, which is the default behavior oractions/checkout.