commit 6cd767f939e1163234a767098173802643dd4dfc
author Harrison Mutai <harrison.mutai@arm.com> Wed Jun 11 15:01:23 2025 +0000
committer Tomás González <tomasagustin.gonzalezorlando@arm.com> Thu Jun 19 13:12:50 2025 +0100
tree 6a04e7c3a5e07b15596411379e12e2ffa8006b35
parent 35b20d98d9ad53b3fdcb32daa76e42b7120b890d

fix(scripts): shallow clone everything

Today we clone all of the git history, this comes at a cost when start a
tf-a-builder job which copies over the entire clone into it's workspace
(e.g. for RMM the history is 1.1GB). Shallow clone the projects and
their submodules.

Change-Id: I6c9965bf5a1e8d36fbee515b9ca036aaac2330b7
Signed-off-by: Harrison Mutai <harrison.mutai@arm.com>

scripts/clone.sh

diff --git a/scripts/clone.sh b/scripts/clone.sh
index 022b296..c872ab7 100755
--- a/scripts/clone.sh
+++ b/scripts/clone.sh
@@ -137,8 +137,8 @@
 
     # clone and checkout in case it does not exist
     if [ ! -d ${SHARE_FOLDER}/${REPO_NAME} ]; then
-        git clone --recurse-submodules ${GIT_CLONE_PARAMS} ${REPO_URL} ${SHARE_FOLDER}/${REPO_NAME}
-
+        git clone ${GIT_CLONE_PARAMS} ${REPO_URL} ${SHARE_FOLDER}/${REPO_NAME} \
+                    --depth 1 --recurse-submodules --shallow-submodules
         # If the Gerrit review that triggered the CI had a topic, it will be used to synchronize the other repositories
         if [ -n "${GERRIT_TOPIC}" -a "${REPO_HOST}" = "${GERRIT_HOST}" -a "${GERRIT_PROJECT}" != "${REPO_PROJECT}" ]; then
             echo "Got Gerrit Topic: ${GERRIT_TOPIC}"
@@ -160,8 +160,7 @@
             git fetch ${REPO_URL} ${REPO_REFSPEC}
         fi
 
-        git checkout FETCH_HEAD
-        git submodule update --init --recursive
+        git checkout --recurse-submodules FETCH_HEAD
         echo "Freshly cloned ${REPO_URL} (refspec ${REPO_REFSPEC}):"
         git log -1
         cd $OLDPWD