Should - checkout be invoked for every job?

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Hi,

I am working on a pipeline where I see we are using the - checkout step every time, in every job.

Is it better to - checkout only once, and persist the whole repo to the workspace or checkout in every job attaching only node modules from the first job, for example?

Thanks

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It will depend on what you are doing. With speed being something to look at. Checkout results in the repo being pulled down for each job, while using workspace results in a single checkout and the directory of the repo then being packaged up and then redistributed across all the different jobs.

As I use self-hosted runners I do not know how the 2 solutions compare in terms of performance.

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