If you start from scratch, regardless of history, you're fetching at least the size of the repo. In many cases, that's hundreds of MBs for every build and I'm a

If you start from scratch, regardless of history, you're fetching at least the size of the repo. In many cases, that's hundreds of MBs for every build and I'm a huge fan of building for every commit. I find that a colossal waste. I have a very old fashioned and "not recommended" setup with Jenkins that only pulls new commits, because it works out of a persistent working directory. Works wonders for a Django/ES6 project and sips bandwidth. I wish more of the modern containerized, start-from-scratch and so on setups would work in a similar way wrt the bandwidth they use.