`circleci local execute` checkout step is insanely slow

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1

Here’s my config.yml:

version: 2

jobs:
  noop:
    docker:
      - image: ubuntu:18.04
    steps:
      - checkout

workflows:
  version: 2
  poop:
    jobs:
      - noop

And here’s what happens when I try to run it with circleci local execute:

$ time circleci local execute --job noop
Docker image digest: sha256:3d88cfffd448da07ff8ced22ccdca5adc09ff18e87dc7db9b8af5b8a47647c08
====>> Spin up Environment
Build-agent version 0.1.750-336e0196 (2018-09-13T19:48:06+0000)
Starting container ubuntu:18.04
  using image ubuntu@sha256:6d0e0c26489e33f5a6f0020edface2727db9489744ecc9b4f50c7fa671f23c49

Using build environment variables:
  BASH_ENV=/tmp/.bash_env-localbuild-1542960972
  CI=true
  CIRCLECI=true
  CIRCLE_BRANCH=touch-me
  CIRCLE_BUILD_NUM=
  CIRCLE_JOB=noop
  CIRCLE_NODE_INDEX=0
  CIRCLE_NODE_TOTAL=1
  CIRCLE_REPOSITORY_URL=https://github.com/drshrey/kumo.git
  CIRCLE_SHA1=a57a0fae406989cb92e624520f520336b80aec46
  CIRCLE_SHELL_ENV=/tmp/.bash_env-localbuild-1542960972
  CIRCLE_WORKING_DIRECTORY=~/project

====>> Checkout code
  #!/bin/bash -eo pipefail
mkdir -p /root/project && cp -r /tmp/_circleci_local_build_repo/. /root/project
Success!

real	8m3.132s
user	0m0.083s
sys	0m0.086s

What the heck is taking 8 minutes!?? I’m on macOS 10.14 with Docker version 18.09.0, build 4d60db4,

1 Like
2

I am having the same issue. Unfortunately my repo is about 500+ meg. The sad thing is I can upload it to github, and download it to another machine faster than I can get it into a container on my mac.

3

Hi Mathew and Samuela,

Since this is the local CLI it uses standard git under the hood, so this is going to be something local.

The repo is here https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/circleci-cli and open-source. I’m not aware of anything that would cause it to be slow, though. :thinking:

4

This bit of the output leads me to believe that it’s cp’ing instead of using git. Am I misunderstanding something? How exactly does the local checkout process work under the hood?

5

I think we’ve made some changes since then.

Can you try upgrading to the latest version and see if that improved things? https://circleci.com/docs/2.0/local-cli/#updating-the-legacy-cli

6

Checking to see if there’s any update on this issue.
I’m seeing the same here with the latest circleci.

% circleci version
0.1.15108+272a716 (homebrew)

Running locally with a very small repo, the checkout step takes a very long time (multiple minutes). Making it extremely unproductive to work with.