Sparse Checkout Buildkite Plugin

A Buildkite plugin for creating a sparse checkout of a repository.

This is useful for pipeline upload steps that dont need to access files outside the .buildkite directory. If your repository is large, this plugin will speed up your pipelines by only pulling the files relevant to the step.

Configuration

These are all the options available to configure this plugin's behaviour.

Required

paths (list of string)

Paths accepted by git sparse-checkout set.

Optional

no_cone ('true' or 'false')

Whether to pass --no-cone to git sparse-checkout so that the paths are considered to be a list of patterns.

Example

Below is an example for using sparse-checkout plugin.

steps:
  - label: "Pipeline upload"
    command: "buildkite-agent pipeline upload"
    plugins:
      - sparse-checkout#v1.0.0:
          paths:
            - .buildkite

⚒ Developing

To run testing, shellchecks and plugin linting use bk run with the Buildkite CLI.

bk run

👩‍💻 Contributing

Your policy on how to contribute to the plugin!

📜 License

The package is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.