Checkout Schemes

A checkout scheme specifies how pulse™ should bootstrap, or prepare a working directory, for your recipes. The available checkout schemes are:

• Clean Checkout: the default, where a new directory is created for every build and populated via a clean checkout from your SCM.
• Clean Update: the code is incrementally updated from your SCM into a persistent directory, and then copied to a new clean directory that is used as a base for the recipe.
• Incremental Update: all recipes for a project on an agent reuse the same persistent directory, where the code is incrementally checked out and the recipe is run in place.

We recommend using a clean build every time if it is fast enough to be practical. For larger projects, incremental building may be much faster.