[erikb]

You put the wheels into a git repo? That's the most sad thing I've heard today. You know that if you add a file in commit A and remove it in Commit B each and every clone still pulls in that file? It's okay for text files but it's very much not okay for binaries and packages.

[kevinschumacher]

    git clone --depth=1 path/to/repo

when doing a clone for a deploy, since you don't need the history

edit: but yes, cloning as a developer will take a long time. But, if it really gets out of hand, I can hand new devs a HDD with the repo on it, and they can just pull recent changes. Not ideal, but pretty workable