We have a huge git repository (1+GB) with lots of history. In a workflow with lots of jobs, it took 2+ mins on each job to do the checkout. It can lead to a lot of added time. Here’s what you can do to only have to use “checkout” once: Define a job that will checkout your repository and persist i…

That looks excellent. I’d also say that a checkout probably does a full clone, when you probably only need a shallow clone, i.e. with a --depth=1. That would be very fast too.

[image] analogue: I don’t think you can customize the checkout step Correct, but it’s optional in Circle 2.0. :slightly_smiling_face: So you can just swap it out for an ordinary run step containing the Git command you want.

And what about all the other stuff done in the checkout step?

[image] analogue: And what about all the other stuff done in the checkout step? Ooh, I didn’t know it did anything else. What else does it do?

You can look at what it does at any of your build, expand the checkout step.

The advice to remove the optional checkout step and swap it to a custom Git command has been given by a Circle employee here before, so it may be worth a try? Anyway, best of luck with whatever you decide!

You can try to cache the .git source, so it will only fetch new updates - restore_cache: keys: - repo-source-{{ .Branch }}-{{ .Revision }} - repo-source-{{ .Branch }}- - repo-source- - checkout - save_cache: key: repo-source…

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I don’t think you can customize the checkout step, so you are stuck to the full clone.

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