circleci-checkout-uses-full-clone

CircleCI defaults to a blobless clone (method: blobless), which fetches only the reachable objects for the current commit. This is equivalent to git clone --filter=blob:none and is faster and uses less data than a full clone.

Why this matters

• Blobless is the default: Omit method for the best performance
• Full clones are expensive: Fetching all git history increases checkout time and storage
• Only needed for history-dependent tools: Tools like git describe, semantic-release, commitlint, or changeset need history

What to look for

steps:
  - checkout:
      method: full

When no step commands require git history.

Recommended fix

Remove method: full (or set method: blobless) when git history is not needed:

steps:
  - checkout:
      method: blobless

Or simply:

steps:
  - checkout

Scope

This rule only applies to CircleCI configuration files (.circleci/config.yml).