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Greg
Greg

Reputation: 4035

How to skip checkout in classic pipeline

I have a TFVC project using classic pipelines. Is it possible to disable checking out source code for specified stages?

Right now, each stage is doing a checkout of the whole source code by default. I can't find a task or a property that allows me to do a checkout: none, nor can I find anything in documentation about whether checkout task is supported in classic pipeline.

The tasks I'm trying to do: run PowerShell scripts from other repos - so I need to clone a repo from a different project, and then execute some ps files. This works fine on an Agent Job, but for Agentless Job, can't seem to run PowerShell scripts easily.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 366

Answers (1)

Alvin Zhao - MSFT
Alvin Zhao - MSFT

Reputation: 5797

Unlike a build pipeline (not release pipeline) using Git repository below, a build pipeline getting resources from TFVC repository in classic editor doesn't have the feature of Don't sync sources to skip checkout step. The - chekout: none expression is only used in a YAML pipeline rather than in classic editor and TFVC repository doesn't support YAML pipelines.

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Since you don't want to use the sources from your TFVC repo during the pipeline run and expect to clone another Git repo in another project, you can directly select that repo in the Get sources section. enter image description here

For this, you need to make sure the pipeline job authorization scope is Project collection instead of the default Current project in pipeline Options and Project Settings. enter image description here

Besides, kindly be noted that we are unable to use a PowerShell task in an agent-less job (see Agentless jobs supported tasks).

Upvotes: 2

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