Prevent checkout if you have "persist_to_workspace"

[Alejandroid17]

Orb version:

circleci/[email protected]

What happened:

When I try to persist the working environment persist_to_workspace and use it, to avoid the checkout step, I don't succeed.

# config.yml

...

jobs:
  # Checkout custom job to only clone the latest changes.
  custom-checkout:
    docker:
      - image: cimg/base:2023.02
    steps:
        ...
      - run:
          name: Clone bitbucket repository
          command: git clone --depth 5 "$CIRCLE_REPOSITORY_URL" --branch "$CIRCLE_BRANCH"
      - persist_to_workspace:
          root: /home/circleci/
          paths:
            - project

workflows:

  default-workflow:
    jobs:
      - custom-checkout
      - path-filtering/filter:
          requires:
            - custom-checkout
          name: Filter workflows
          mapping: |
            .*.py test-back true
          base-revision: fast-track
          config-path: .circleci/workflows/default-workflows.yml
          workspace_path: /home/circleci/

Expected behavior:

Attach workspace and avoid project cloning.

Thanks!! :)

[morrisonlevi]

Perhaps a perform_checkout: boolean type of config option to the orb would be better than trying to automatically detect if it should perform a checkout? Dunno.

In any case, for people who perform custom checkout steps, it would be nice to have something like this available.

[Fernando-Abreu]

I've added it to our backlog

[adrogon]

For reference, please notice how it was solved in the Continuation Orb: https://github.com/CircleCI-Public/continuation-orb/pull/36/files