Hi, if I'm pulling from github, will it always pull the ENTIRE repo? No way to only pull down the directory with my bits in it?

if you're pulling from github, that's correct you can use s3, gcs or bake code into your image (if docker) if that's prohibitive or perhaps open an issue about implementing some sparse checkout option in

git_clone

step

Thanks, one way or another I want the various files tracked in github, I suppose I can just create a dedicated repo, but that in turn makes it a bit obscure when our team is, rightly or wrongly, used to a single repo for scripts and tools and the likes.

is your issue that your repo is just too big and its a lot to pull down all the time?

Well it's a collecting place for various support tools and backups outside of our main code repos. Not my design, but we are where we are!

You could publish it to a pypi index with some of the submodules optional on install

Thanks but very much outside of my remit here.