Normally, if you are using a self-hosted Azure agent, it automatically selects target folders for you (I assume based on pipeline name), underneath the work folder... so for example:
/home/xxxxx/azure/_work/2/t/
Is there a way that I can control this choice from a YAML pipeline? My use case is that I have a very large repo, and several different pipelines that all check it out. I only have one agent running on the machine, so my preference is that all of the pipelines I run on this agent check out into the same folder (like /home/xxxxx/azure/_work/MyProject), ensuring that there will only be one checkout of this large repo.
You could avoid syncing sources at all in the pipeline by setting checkout: none:
steps:
- checkout: none
Then add a command line or script task to clone the repo manually via git commands.