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		junon on July 23, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why SQLite does not use Git (2018) Unless you're checking out old commits, `git clone --depth=1`. Then you get close to the ideal download size for any given repo.

gardenhedge on July 23, 2023 [–]

If that is ideal why is it not the default?

junon on July 24, 2023 | [–]

Because it's unexpected behavior and not what you want most of the time. It's ideal in the sense of bytes on the wire.

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