Interesting, I have taken a stab at maintaining a repo on the nixpkgs and using a --sparse approach, i.e. `git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse --branch nixos

Interesting, I have taken a stab at maintaining a repo on the nixpkgs and using a --sparse approach, i.e. `git clone --filter=blob:none --sparse --branch nixos-25.11 https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs.git nixpkgs-dorion cd nixpkgs-dorion`