Enable the use of shallow checkout on Windows executors | Feature Requests

Enable the use of shallow checkout on Windows executors

Ervin Grapp

Currently on windows, the only way to achieve a shallow checkout is either by creating a

.git

cache or by using additional ssh keys which would require more keys to be added to each project.

Users would like to be able to use the

--depth

parameter when performing a checkout which is currently not possible on Windows without using either of the aforementioned workarounds.

Sebastian Lerner

Hi folks, we are testing out something similar to a shallow clone (a blobless clone https://github.blog/2020-12-21-get-up-to-speed-with-partial-clone-and-shallow-clone/) that aims to speed up checkouts.

If you want to try this out in "beta", email me at sebastian@circleci.com