Add support for Git's tree-ish filters during the clone process, specifically --filter=blob:none. This will significantly improve clone performance for large monorepos within Spacelift by preventing the download of file contents (blobs) at the initial clone stage.
Sparse checkout didn’t deliver the speedup this post was closed for, so please reopen it. Measured on ~70 runs across 10 of our stacks: sparse paths are applied after a full depth-1 fetch with no blob filter, so each run still downloads a ~415 MB pack and PREPARING spends 50-66 s on it, whether the stack checks out one folder or many. A partial clone (filter=blob:none) with the same sparse paths is 16-32 MiB, about 8-12 s. Narrower paths, the feature:enable_git_checkout label and tarball mode (103 s) don’t help. Related open request: https://feedback.spacelift.io/p/native-git-support. Example run: 01M5F6TSDK7PDETKAQM02RW29J.
Black Breeze
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Sep 5, 2025
I’m going to close this now as complete, via sparse checkout functionality. Please give it a chance over a few weeks and reopen if expected speedup is not achieved.
Black Breeze
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Sep 4, 2025
Landon, we’re launching sparse checkout capability next week, do you think it would address the core problem?
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Yellow Oak
Oct 22
Sparse checkout didn’t deliver the speedup this post was closed for, so please reopen it. Measured on ~70 runs across 10 of our stacks: sparse paths are applied after a full depth-1 fetch with no blob filter, so each run still downloads a ~415 MB pack and PREPARING spends 50-66 s on it, whether the stack checks out one folder or many. A partial clone (filter=blob:none) with the same sparse paths is 16-32 MiB, about 8-12 s. Narrower paths, the feature:enable_git_checkout label and tarball mode (103 s) don’t help. Related open request: https://feedback.spacelift.io/p/native-git-support. Example run: 01M5F6TSDK7PDETKAQM02RW29J.
Black Breeze
Sep 5, 2025
I’m going to close this now as complete, via sparse checkout functionality. Please give it a chance over a few weeks and reopen if expected speedup is not achieved.
Black Breeze
Sep 4, 2025
Landon, we’re launching sparse checkout capability next week, do you think it would address the core problem?