Reducing Pipeline Runtime

[gmenziesint]

Hey,

We're starting to see our pipeline runs taking 30 minutes plus as it's pulling all of the history for the repo. We're using Tags to tag individual backups so we can find them easily by date and time.

Would changing the checkout depth for the pipeline have an affect on the backup?

Example -

Thanks!

[almenscorner]

If you are only creating a new tag and tagging the current state I would do a shallow depth (fetchDepth 1) as that might have an significant effect on the runtime.

[gmenziesint]

I did try this but it didn't really reduce the runtime, the fetchdepth is default 1 from what I can see from the documentation also.
Getting to the stage now where the initial pull from the repo is at about 600-700MB ish so it's fairly large now.

[almenscorner]

The checkout size of my repo is 1.3GB and it takes just under 4 minutes to do the initial pull before backup, all I do is this:

jobs:
  - job: backup
    displayName: backup
    pool:
      vmImage: ubuntu-latest
    continueOnError: false
    steps:
    - checkout: self
      fetchDepth: 1
      persistCredentials: true

[gmenziesint]

The checkout size of my repo is 1.3GB and it takes just under 4 minutes to do the initial pull before backup, all I do is this:

jobs:
  - job: backup
    displayName: backup
    pool:
      vmImage: ubuntu-latest
    continueOnError: false
    steps:
    - checkout: self
      fetchDepth: 1
      persistCredentials: true

Yeah ours is the same, it takes roughly 8 minutes, I'd say also because we're tagging the repo it does another check out before that so that's another 8 Minutes, I'll keep an eye on it anyway and see if there's anything else we can do, Thanks for your help!