I'm not OP but I'll guess .... lock files with old versions of libs in. The latest version of a library may be v2 but if most users are locked to v1.267.34 you

I'm not OP but I'll guess .... lock files with old versions of libs in. The latest version of a library may be v2 but if most users are locked to v1.267.34 you need all the old versions too. However a lot of the "data in git repositories" projects I see don't have any such need, and then ... > Why not just have a post-commit hook render the current HEAD to static files, into something like GitHub Pages? ... is a good plan. Usually they make a nice static website with the data that's easy for humans to read though.