Repository checkout and Git LFS downloads are now faster
Repository checkout and Git LFS downloads are now faster on Vercel, reducing build preparation time. Average checkout time improved by 20%, with LFS-enabled projects seeing a 54% improvement and saving approximately 13 seconds per deployment.
Repository checkout and downloads are now faster on Vercel, reducing the time spent preparing your project's files before a build.Git LFS
During rollout on build machines with more than two vCPUs:
These improvements apply automatically, with no action required. Read the to learn more.Git deployment documentation
The average time to get project files ready fell by 20%.
For LFS-enabled projects, the average time to get project files ready fell by 54%, saving approximately 13 seconds per deployment on this step.
The 90th-percentile time to get project files ready fell by 22%. This means 90% of deployments finish this step in that time or less.
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