# Optional cloning step

**URL:** <https://drone.discourse.group/t/optional-cloning-step/3722>\
**Category:** Drone Support\
**Created:** [November 13, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/optional-cloning-step/3722 "2017-11-13T11:36:45Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![yellowmegaman](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/yellowmegaman/32/3786_2.png) [@yellowmegaman](https://drone.discourse.group/u/yellowmegaman)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 11:36am UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/optional-cloning-step/3722/1 "2017-11-13T11:36:46Z")

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I’d like to disable cloning for events. Just pretend i’m about to deploy some artifact via drone-cli, why would i want to clone the repo?

Tell me what you think please.

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**Author:** ![bradrydzewski](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/bradrydzewski/32/3513_2.png) [@bradrydzewski](https://drone.discourse.group/u/bradrydzewski)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2017, 4:13pm UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/optional-cloning-step/3722/2 "2017-11-13T16:13:27Z")

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> [@yellowmegaman](#):
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> Just pretend i’m about to deploy some artifact via drone-cli, why would i want to clone the repo?

the drone cli never executes the clone step, by default

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**Author:** ![bradrydzewski](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex003/user_avatar/drone.discourse.group/bradrydzewski/32/3513_2.png) [@bradrydzewski](https://drone.discourse.group/u/bradrydzewski)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2017, 5:16am UTC](https://drone.discourse.group/t/optional-cloning-step/3722/3 "2017-11-15T05:16:06Z")

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