The only way I've ever successfully `git clone`d my work repo is from another locally connected device. Even with shallow and then gradually unshallowing it, it

The only way I've ever successfully `git clone`d my work repo is from another locally connected device. Even with shallow and then gradually unshallowing it, it will not generally complete before the internet falls over. Nowadays, a new computer means a git clone (or just plain copy-paste) of a USB stick from the old one. This seems like it's a single feature of git that could be written, but if you told me "there's something that works better for large, twenty year old repos", I'd probably take that. I don't know how Linux survives, but maybe it's just that you only rarely git clone your large repos. (Or maybe it's just that intercontinental internet is less reliable than intracontinental, so that if you're in the US it's a non issue.)