added filter option & tests

src/git-source-provider.ts

@@ -154,7 +154,13 @@ export async function getSource(settings: IGitSourceSettings): Promise<void> {
     // Fetch
     core.startGroup('Fetching the repository')
     const fetchOptions: {filter?: string; fetchDepth?: number} = {}
-    if (settings.sparseCheckout) fetchOptions.filter = 'blob:none'
+
+    if (settings.filter) {
+      fetchOptions.filter = settings.filter
+    } else if (settings.sparseCheckout) {
+      fetchOptions.filter = 'blob:none'
+    }
+
     if (settings.fetchDepth <= 0) {
       // Fetch all branches and tags
       let refSpec = refHelper.getRefSpecForAllHistory(

src/git-source-settings.ts

@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ export interface IGitSourceSettings {
    */
   clean: boolean
 
+  /**
+   * The filter determining which objects to include
+   */
+  filter: string | undefined
+
   /**
    * The array of folders to make the sparse checkout
    */

src/input-helper.ts

@@ -82,6 +82,10 @@ export async function getInputs(): Promise<IGitSourceSettings> {
   result.clean = (core.getInput('clean') || 'true').toUpperCase() === 'TRUE'
   core.debug(`clean = ${result.clean}`)
 
+  // Filter
+  result.filter = core.getInput('filter')
+  core.debug(`filter = ${result.filter}`)
+
   // Sparse checkout
   const sparseCheckout = core.getMultilineInput('sparse-checkout')
   if (sparseCheckout.length) {