Checkout small files only

[pcgeek86]

I have some large files in my repository that are slowing down the checkout process. To work around this locally, I can use the following command:

git clone --no-checkout --filter=blob:limit=1m

However, I cannot find any ways to pass in these additional options to the checkout action.

Any ideas how to skip large files with this checkout action?

[jakub-g]

Note GitLab supports GIT_FETCH_EXTRA_FLAGS which can be used for that purpose:

• https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/large_repositories/
• https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/ci/runners/configure_runners.html#git-fetch-extra-flags

Similar feature would be useful here as well.

[flying-sheep]

As a hack, I assume one could do the following:

# sparse checkout to set the blob:none filter, but include all files
sparse-checkout: '/*/'
# allow interacting with the Git history
fetch-depth: 0

That way, we get a clone with intact history but no old blobs being downloaded.

A real fix is in #1396