How to speed up ci server with small git command change ?

Gökhan Alıcı — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 23:16:34 +0000

Last year I was working on enterprise project which has been maintaining for a 3/4 years. In the beginning of the project's repository designed as single repository for android and ios projects but during development of project it split up to separate repositories. But even when i run git clone command took almost 15 minutes. I thought it won't be problem because I won't run that command frequently but what happened ? I started to run git clone commit frequently due to ci server. Because I created jenkins job to run tests and build apk during our pr process which basically do below steps

Setup android environment
Clone project
Run unit test
Build apk

Until today i didn't aware of how to speed up project clone time
If I'd run

git clone **url** --single-branch **branch-name** depth=1

instead of

git clone **url**

it would have been 7 times faster.

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How to speed up ci server with small git command change ?

TIL: shallow clone