Speeding up SCM-Pipelines

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Thanks for your replies, but none of them were the solution to my issue. However, the website linked by @sodul put me on the right path.

Here is what I did:

  1. Add some code to pipeline 1 so that it clones the remote repo once into a local folder in the workspace folder. I am using declarative pipelines, so here is the code for that:

     def repoDir = "${env.WORKSPACE}/../repository"

 stage("Clone Repo To Local Machine"){
     //clone the remote once, so that following jobs don't have to
     dir(repoDir){
         git branch: "master",
         credentialsId: "git_pat",
         url: <remote-url>
     }

  2. Set up Pipeline 2 and 3 so that they get access to the local repo freshly cloned by Pipeline 1:

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  3. prevent pipelines 2 and 3 from doing the default checkout done at the start of a scm-pipeline by inserting the following line of code into the pipeline code:

    skipDefaultCheckout()

And that’s it! Now pipelines 2 and 3 use the locally stored clone of the remote that has been freshly updated by pipeline 1 beforehand, instead of re-cloning every time they run.