Nope, this brings all the git files and puts them on a nearby storage. The remote (as in "git remote") remains the same. You still need to get lots of files but

Nope, this brings all the git files and puts them on a nearby storage. The remote (as in "git remote") remains the same. You still need to get lots of files but most of these files are nearby. (We got our CI checkout time from 40+ minutes to well under half a minute this way.)