checkout/src
Johannes Schindelin d106d4669b
Add support for sparse checkouts (#1369)
* Add support for sparse checkouts

* sparse-checkout: optionally turn off cone mode

While it _is_ true that cone mode is the default nowadays (mainly for
performance reasons: code mode is much faster than non-cone mode), there
_are_ legitimate use cases where non-cone mode is really useful.

Let's add a flag to optionally disable cone mode.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

* Verify minimum Git version for sparse checkout

The `git sparse-checkout` command is available only since Git version
v2.25.0. The `actions/checkout` Action actually supports older Git
versions than that; As of time of writing, the minimum version is
v2.18.0.

Instead of raising this minimum version even for users who do not
require a sparse checkout, only check for this minimum version
specifically when a sparse checkout was asked for.

Suggested-by: Tingluo Huang <tingluohuang@github.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

* Support sparse checkout/LFS better

Instead of fetching all the LFS objects present in the current revision
in a sparse checkout, whether they are needed inside the sparse cone or
not, let's instead only pull the ones that are actually needed.

To do that, let's avoid running that preemptive `git lfs fetch` call in
case of a sparse checkout.

An alternative that was considered during the development of this patch
(and ultimately rejected) was to use `git lfs pull --include <path>...`,
but it turned out to be too inflexible because it requires exact paths,
not the patterns that are available via the sparse checkout definition,
and that risks running into command-line length limitations.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>

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Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Co-authored-by: Daniel <daniel.fernandez@feverup.com>
2023-06-09 09:08:21 -04:00
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misc Patch to fix the dependbot alert. (#744) 2022-04-05 13:01:33 -04:00
fs-helper.ts update dev dependencies and react to new linting rules (#611) 2021-10-19 09:52:57 -05:00
git-auth-helper.ts Add new public key for known_hosts (#1237) 2023-03-24 01:34:48 -04:00
git-command-manager.ts Add support for sparse checkouts (#1369) 2023-06-09 09:08:21 -04:00
git-directory-helper.ts Fix typos found by codespell (#1287) 2023-04-19 16:55:10 +02:00
git-source-provider.ts Add support for sparse checkouts (#1369) 2023-06-09 09:08:21 -04:00
git-source-settings.ts Add support for sparse checkouts (#1369) 2023-06-09 09:08:21 -04:00
git-version.ts Convert checkout to a regular action (#70) 2019-12-03 10:28:59 -05:00
github-api-helper.ts Fix: convert baseUrl to serverApiUrl 'formatted' (#1289) 2023-04-13 14:25:50 +02:00
input-helper.ts Add support for sparse checkouts (#1369) 2023-06-09 09:08:21 -04:00
main.ts set insteadOf url for org-id (#621) 2021-11-01 11:43:18 -05:00
ref-helper.ts Fix: convert baseUrl to serverApiUrl 'formatted' (#1289) 2023-04-13 14:25:50 +02:00
regexp-helper.ts add support for submodules (#173) 2020-03-05 14:21:59 -05:00
retry-helper.ts update dev dependencies and react to new linting rules (#611) 2021-10-19 09:52:57 -05:00
state-helper.ts Fix comment typos (that got added in #770) (#1057) 2022-12-28 17:19:08 -05:00
url-helper.ts Inject GitHub host to be able to clone from another GitHub instance (#922) 2022-09-26 12:34:52 -04:00
workflow-context-helper.ts set insteadOf url for org-id (#621) 2021-11-01 11:43:18 -05:00