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---
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date: 2023-09-22
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authors: [squidfunk]
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categories:
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- Build
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- Performance
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links:
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- publishing-your-site.md#with-github-actions
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- creating-your-site.md#building-your-site
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---
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# Using `git sparse-checkout` for faster documentation builds
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__Leveraging `git sparse-checkout` in GitHub Actions enabled us to speed up
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documentation builds in our repository, cutting checkout times from 20 to 30
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seconds to just 2 seconds.__
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Developing an efficient approach to build documentation in CI workflows is
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essential, especially when working in large repositories with thousands of
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commits, like ours. Of course, we want to build documentation quickly and
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efficiently, ensuring fast and productive workflows. When using both the
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wonderful [`git-committers`][git-committers] and [`git-revision-date-localized`]
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[git-revision-date-localized] plugins to display [document contributors] and
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[dates] at the bottom of each page, we are required to set `fetch-depth: 0`,
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which resulted in checkout times of 20 to 30 seconds on our repository. By
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leveraging [`git sparse-checkout`][git sparse-checkout] within [GitHub Actions],
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check out time was brought down to 2 seconds.
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[git sparse-checkout]: https://git-scm.com/docs/git-sparse-checkout
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[GitHub Actions]: ../../publishing-your-site.md#with-github-actions
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[git-revision-date-localized]: https://github.com/timvink/mkdocs-git-revision-date-localized-plugin
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[git-committers]: https://github.com/ojacques/mkdocs-git-committers-plugin-2
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[document contributors]: ../../setup/adding-a-git-repository.md#document-contributors
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[dates]: ../../setup/adding-a-git-repository.md#document-dates
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## A Primer
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[`git sparse-checkout`][git sparse-checkout] allows you to check out only a
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subset of the files in a repository, making it incredibly useful for large
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repositories where a full checkout takes long and includes many files that are
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not relevant when building documentation.
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## GitHub Actions
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To enable [`git sparse-checkout`][git sparse-checkout] within [GitHub Actions]
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and ensure that you are only building the documentation that you need, add the
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following lines to your workflow file:
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``` yaml
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- uses: actions/checkout@v4
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with:
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fetch-depth: 0
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sparse-checkout: |
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docs
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includes
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```
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[`git sparse-checkout`][git sparse-checkout] always checks out all files
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residing in the repository’s root. This means that regardless of the specified
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paths or directories for sparse checkout, the files located in the root of the
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repository will always be included in the checkout process.
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Thus, you only need to specify the directories that are necessary for building
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documentation. In our case, we only need the `docs` and `includes` folders,
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but if you need additional directories, you can just add them to the end of the
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list. A complete example workflow for [GitHub Actions]:
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``` yaml hl_lines="13-18"
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name: documentation
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on:
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push:
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branches:
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- master
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- main
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permissions:
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contents: write
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jobs:
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deploy:
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runs-on: ubuntu-latest
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steps:
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- uses: actions/checkout@v4
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with:
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fetch-depth: 0
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sparse-checkout: |
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docs
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includes
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- uses: actions/setup-python@v4
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with:
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python-version: 3.x
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- run: pip install mkdocs-material
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- run: mkdocs gh-deploy --force
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```
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## Conclusion
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That's all there is! We're super happy with the results and hope that this will
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help you to speed up your documentation builds in [GitHub Actions] as well. As
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always, feel free to share your thoughts and experiences in the comments below.
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