Users can now specify a checkout method when using the checkout step. In addition to a traditional full clone, we now support blobless clones. Blobless clones reduce the amount of data fetched from the remote by asking the remote to filter out objects that are not attached to the current commit, resulting in faster checkouts for most projects.
You can perform a blobless clone by setting the method key in your checkout step:
jobs:
build:
steps:
- checkout:
method: blobless
Learn more about the new method key in our documentation.