Add "depth" and "single_branch" options for core.repository_prep

[karlatec]

Enhancement / feature request:
Please add depth and single_branch options (something like in Ansible Git) to repository_prep script to reduce the size of checked-out repository. Cloning with at full depth and with all branches is troublesome for large repositories, taking way too much disk space.

For example checking out freebsd source repository takes up ~5GB space vs checking out a single branch with depth=1, which takes ~2GB.

[glimchb]

or fetch-depth: 2 in https://github.com/actions/checkout?tab=readme-ov-file#checkout-head
as another example to @karlatec ansible above

code looks like is sitting here:

cijoe/src/cijoe/core/scripts/repository_prep.py

Line 60 in fbb83ef

f" git clone {repos['remote']} {repos['path']} --recursive"

[NaddiNadja]

Hi! Sorry for not seeing this before now - I've opened a pull request to get this feature :)
I've added it as both an argument in the configuration file, so that you can adjust these args per repository, or in the workflow file, so as to let you just adjust it for every repository. The configuration file will overwrite the setting in the workflow.

In the configuration file:

[cijoe.repository]
remote = "https://github.com/refenv/cijoe/"
path = "{{ local.env.HOME }}/git/cijoe"
depth = 2
single_branch = true

In the workflow:

- name: repos
  uses: core.repository_prep
  with:
    depth: 2
    single_branch: true

[karlatec]

Hey! Sorry for no reply. I saw this last month and planned to get back to it after the holidays and forgot to do so, of course.

Looks great, thank you for that. I see that the commit was already merged, so let me close the issue.