| ms.topic | ms.technology | ms.manager | ms.author | author | ms.date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
include |
devops-cicd |
mijacobs |
sdanie |
steved0x |
02/13/2020 |
You can perform different forms of cleaning the working directory of your self-hosted agent before a build runs.
In general, for faster performance of your self-hosted agents, don't clean the repo. In this case, to get the best performance, make sure you're also building incrementally by disabling any Clean option of the task or tool you're using to build.
If you do need to clean the repo (for example to avoid problems caused by residual files from a previous build), your options are below.