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diff --git a/doc/ci/large_repositories/index.md b/doc/ci/large_repositories/index.md index b4652050654..00e912d47dc 100644 --- a/doc/ci/large_repositories/index.md +++ b/doc/ci/large_repositories/index.md @@ -124,6 +124,10 @@ are dependent on Git version. [`GIT_FETCH_EXTRA_FLAGS`](../yaml/README.md#git-fetch-extra-flags) allows you to modify `git fetch` behavior by passing extra flags. +For example, if your project contains a large number of tags that your CI jobs don't rely on, +you could add [`--no-tags`](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-fetch#Documentation/git-fetch.txt---no-tags) +to the extra flags to make your fetches faster and more compact. + See the [`GIT_FETCH_EXTRA_FLAGS` documentation](../yaml/README.md#git-fetch-extra-flags) for more information. @@ -253,3 +257,11 @@ concurrent = 4 This makes the cloning configuration to be part of given Runner and does not require us to update each `.gitlab-ci.yml`. + +## Pre-clone step + +For very active repositories with a large number of references and files, you can also +optimize your CI jobs by seeding repository data with GitLab Runner's [`pre_clone_script`](https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/configuration/advanced-configuration.html#the-runners-section). + +See [our development documentation](../../development/pipelines.md#pre-clone-step) for +an overview of how we implemented this approach on GitLab.com for the main GitLab repository. |