Does this avoid tags as well? We have a decent number of them.

Does this avoid tags as well? We have a decent number of them.

Looking at the logs, no, it does not avoid tags.

Does this avoid tags as well? We have a decent number of them.

Doesn't appear to be an option either - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/yaml-schema/steps-checkout?view=azure-pipelines

Does this avoid tags as well? We have a decent number of them.

Doesn't appear to be an option either - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/yaml-schema/steps-checkout?view=azure-pipelines

I'm trying to figure out where to submit a PR or add a request. I wouldn't block on removing the manual checkout for this though.

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Add-support-to-avoid-fetching-tags-in-Az/10073567

Upvotes would be appreciated. I took a stab at the sources and there is a ton of complexity (perhaps due to going back to older versions of VSTS and such)

up dooted

Is this solving a correctness issue? At a glance this still appears to be 3-4x slower than the shallow checkout that we do currently. That difference is less than 2 minutes, granted.

Is this solving a correctness issue? At a glance this still appears to be 3-4x slower than the shallow checkout that we do currently. That difference is less than 2 minutes, granted.

This was a reaction to, earlier in the day, git was not on the path on Windows machines

Is this solving a correctness issue? At a glance this still appears to be 3-4x slower than the shallow checkout that we do currently. That difference is less than 2 minutes, granted.

Up to you guys whether you take it. Git was removed on purpose from the images with VS on them: dotnet/arcade#9166

Let's merge this to resolve the current CI failures in main. Thanks @mmitche!