feat: added sparse-checkout option

action.yml

@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ inputs:
   clean:
     description: 'Whether to execute `git clean -ffdx && git reset --hard HEAD` before fetching'
     default: true
+  sparse-checkout:
+    description: 'Do a sparse checkout on given patterns'
+    default: null
   fetch-depth:
     description: 'Number of commits to fetch. 0 indicates all history for all branches and tags.'
     default: 1

src/git-command-manager.ts

@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ export interface IGitCommandManager {
   branchDelete(remote: boolean, branch: string): Promise<void>
   branchExists(remote: boolean, pattern: string): Promise<boolean>
   branchList(remote: boolean): Promise<string[]>
+  sparseCheckout(sparseCheckout: string[]): Promise<void>
   checkout(ref: string, startPoint: string): Promise<void>
   checkoutDetach(): Promise<void>
   config(
@@ -25,7 +26,13 @@ export interface IGitCommandManager {
     add?: boolean
   ): Promise<void>
   configExists(configKey: string, globalConfig?: boolean): Promise<boolean>
-  fetch(refSpec: string[], fetchDepth?: number): Promise<void>
+  fetch(
+    refSpec: string[],
+    options: {
+      filter?: string
+      fetchDepth?: number
+    }
+  ): Promise<void>
   getDefaultBranch(repositoryUrl: string): Promise<string>
   getWorkingDirectory(): string
   init(): Promise<void>
@@ -154,6 +161,10 @@ class GitCommandManager {
     return result
   }
 
+  async sparseCheckout(sparseCheckout: string[]): Promise<void> {
+    await this.execGit(['sparse-checkout', 'set', ...sparseCheckout])
+  }
+
   async checkout(ref: string, startPoint: string): Promise<void> {
     const args = ['checkout', '--progress', '--force']
     if (startPoint) {
@@ -202,15 +213,23 @@ class GitCommandManager {
     return output.exitCode === 0
   }
 
-  async fetch(refSpec: string[], fetchDepth?: number): Promise<void> {
+  async fetch(
+    refSpec: string[],
+    options: {filter?: string; fetchDepth?: number}
+  ): Promise<void> {
     const args = ['-c', 'protocol.version=2', 'fetch']
     if (!refSpec.some(x => x === refHelper.tagsRefSpec)) {
       args.push('--no-tags')
     }
 
     args.push('--prune', '--progress', '--no-recurse-submodules')
-    if (fetchDepth && fetchDepth > 0) {
+
-      args.push(`--depth=${fetchDepth}`)
+    if (options.filter) {
+      args.push(`--filter=${options.filter}`)
+    }
+
+    if (options.fetchDepth && options.fetchDepth > 0) {
+      args.push(`--depth=${options.fetchDepth}`)
     } else if (
       fshelper.fileExistsSync(
         path.join(this.workingDirectory, '.git', 'shallow')
@@ -289,8 +308,8 @@ class GitCommandManager {
   }
 
   async log1(format?: string): Promise<string> {
-    var args = format ? ['log', '-1', format] : ['log', '-1']
+    const args = format ? ['log', '-1', format] : ['log', '-1']
-    var silent = format ? false : true
+    const silent = format ? false : true
     const output = await this.execGit(args, false, silent)
     return output.stdout
   }

src/git-source-provider.ts

@@ -153,23 +153,26 @@ export async function getSource(settings: IGitSourceSettings): Promise<void> {
 
     // Fetch
     core.startGroup('Fetching the repository')
+    const fetchOptions: {filter?: string; fetchDepth?: number} = {}
+    if (settings.sparseCheckout) fetchOptions.filter = 'blob:none'
     if (settings.fetchDepth <= 0) {
       // Fetch all branches and tags
       let refSpec = refHelper.getRefSpecForAllHistory(
         settings.ref,
         settings.commit
       )
-      await git.fetch(refSpec)
+      await git.fetch(refSpec, fetchOptions)
 
       // When all history is fetched, the ref we're interested in may have moved to a different
       // commit (push or force push). If so, fetch again with a targeted refspec.
       if (!(await refHelper.testRef(git, settings.ref, settings.commit))) {
         refSpec = refHelper.getRefSpec(settings.ref, settings.commit)
-        await git.fetch(refSpec)
+        await git.fetch(refSpec, fetchOptions)
       }
     } else {
+      fetchOptions.fetchDepth = settings.fetchDepth
       const refSpec = refHelper.getRefSpec(settings.ref, settings.commit)
-      await git.fetch(refSpec, settings.fetchDepth)
+      await git.fetch(refSpec, fetchOptions)
     }
     core.endGroup()
 
@@ -191,6 +194,13 @@ export async function getSource(settings: IGitSourceSettings): Promise<void> {
       core.endGroup()
     }
 
+    // Sparse checkout
+    if (settings.sparseCheckout) {
+      core.startGroup('Setting up sparse checkout')
+      await git.sparseCheckout(settings.sparseCheckout)
+      core.endGroup()
+    }
+
     // Checkout
     core.startGroup('Checking out the ref')
     await git.checkout(checkoutInfo.ref, checkoutInfo.startPoint)

src/git-source-settings.ts

@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ export interface IGitSourceSettings {
    */
   clean: boolean
 
+  /**
+   * The array of folders to make the sparse checkout
+   */
+  sparseCheckout: string[]
+
   /**
    * The depth when fetching
    */

src/input-helper.ts

@@ -82,6 +82,13 @@ export async function getInputs(): Promise<IGitSourceSettings> {
   result.clean = (core.getInput('clean') || 'true').toUpperCase() === 'TRUE'
   core.debug(`clean = ${result.clean}`)
 
+  // Sparse checkout
+  const sparseCheckout = core.getMultilineInput('sparse-checkout')
+  if (sparseCheckout.length) {
+    result.sparseCheckout = sparseCheckout
+    core.debug(`sparse checkout = ${result.sparseCheckout}`)
+  }
+
   // Fetch depth
   result.fetchDepth = Math.floor(Number(core.getInput('fetch-depth') || '1'))
   if (isNaN(result.fetchDepth) || result.fetchDepth < 0) {