* 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>
* Adding the ability to specify the GitHub Server URL and allowing for it to differ from the Actions workflow host
* Adding tests for injecting the GitHub URL
* Addressing code review comments for PR #922
* Handle submodules with SSH URLs
This is just a documentation change, explaining how to fix submodules
that are configured to use SSH URLs instead of HTTPS URLs. Spent a while
banging my head on the wall and hope this saves someone else the pain.
This is helpful for teams that use the SSH protocol for local
development so don't want to change the mechanism that pulls in the
submodules. Using `insteadOf` seems a bit nicer than than setting up a
deploy keypair.
* SSH submodules
Co-authored-by: Chris Patterson <chrispat@github.com>
* clarify language
I guess this action doesn't technically make sure that my working directory is `$GITHUB_WORKSPACE`, so this might be more precise?
* fix repetition
