mkdocs-material/blog/2023/09/22/using-git-sparse-checkout-for-faster-documentation-builds/

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[Andre601]

I assume I could use this in other CIs too such as Woodpecker-CI?

The reason I ask is, that Woodpecker-CI is by default doing a shallow fetch of data, so I do a git fetch --unshallow here, which also includes unnecessary data such as git tags, so I wonder if the sparse-checkout would be an alternative to utilize here, or if I would need to use a different solution with git fetch.

Would be cool if other CI/CD examples could be added in the future (If doable of course).

[squidfunk]

Yes, it will always work if you use git, although I have no idea how to configure it for the provider you mentioned. For GitHub Actions, it's just a simple config setting, but you can certainly just use the git CLI to achieve the same.