limiting the time needed to action/checkout

[Josverl]

I have a quite large repo with several sub-repos where I want to dev & test actions
Act works quite well, but I often need to wait several minutes for the copy of the repo to a container ( 30-50% SSD activity, 50-80% for CPU)

So I wonder if is there a way to specify ignore paths that should not be copied to the container ? ( similar to .gitignore and .dockerignore )

Tried thus far :

--reuse

I already have --reuse in the .actrc, then the wait is reduced for subsequent runs.
but for matrix workflows this is not a good option,

--bind

When I try to use --bind , I regularly run into issues such as :

[Createstubs/createstubs-3]   🐳  docker run image=ghcr.io/catthehacker/ubuntu:full-latest platform= entrypoint=["tail" "-f" "/dev/null"] cmd=[] network="host"
[Createstubs/createstubs-3]   🐳  docker exec cmd=[chown -R 1001:127 /mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs] user=0 workdir=
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/.devcontainer': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/.git': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/.venv/Lib/site-packages/cryptography/hazmat/primitives/__pycache__': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/.venv/Lib/site-packages/jedi/inference/compiled/subprocess/__pycache__': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/.venv/Lib/site-packages/jedi/third_party/django-stubs/django-stubs/apps': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/.venv/Lib/site-packages/jedi/third_party/django-stubs/django-stubs/conf': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/.venv/Lib/site-packages/jedi/third_party/django-stubs/django-stubs/contrib': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/.venv/Lib/site-packages/jedi/third_party/django-stubs/django-stubs/core': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/.venv/Lib/site-packages/jedi/third_party/django-stubs/django-stubs/db': Cannot allocate memory
....
....
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/stubs/micropython-v1_9_3-frozen/unix': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/stubs/micropython-v1_9_4-esp8266/uasyncio': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/stubs/micropython-v1_9_4-esp8266/umqtt': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/stubs/micropython-v1_9_4-esp8266/urllib': Cannot allocate memory
| chown: cannot read directory '/mnt/d/MyPython/micropython-stubs/stubs/pycopy-v0_0_0-frozen': Cannot allocate memory

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