Selective Checkout for Azure DevOps

This extension contains a pipeline task that allows for slim git checkouts. You can select what folders you want to download. This keeps your traffic low and your build times short.

Requirements

Git v2.37.1+ needs to be installed on the build agent.

Usage

steps:
- checkout: none

- task: SelectiveCheckout@0
  inputs:
    pathsToCheckout: 'path/to/download'

For multiple paths:

steps:
- checkout: none

- task: SelectiveCheckout@0
  inputs:
    pathsToCheckout: |
      path/to/download/1/
      path/to/download/2/

If a shallow clone is not wanted:

steps:
- checkout: none

- task: SelectiveCheckout@0
  inputs:
    pathsToCheckout: 'path/to/download/*'
    fetchDepth: 0 # The same semantics as the normal checkout task.

To fetch Git tags:

steps:
- checkout: none

- task: SelectiveCheckout@0
  inputs:
    pathsToCheckout: 'path/to/download/*'
    fetchTags: true

fetchTags defaults to false to minimize downloaded data. Set it to true to fetch all repository tags, for example when deriving a version from git describe.

Limitations

• Only Github and Azure Devops repositories are supported.
• No multiple repository support.
• No Team Foundation Version Control (TFVS) support.
• No advanced further checkout parameters, like clean

If you need more features, feel free to contact me.