git clone --depth=1 path/to/repo when doing a clone for a deploy, since you don't need the history edit: but yes, cloning as a developer will take a long time

git clone --depth=1 path/to/repo when doing a clone for a deploy, since you don't need the history edit: but yes, cloning as a developer will take a long time. But, if it really gets out of hand, I can hand new devs a HDD with the repo on it, and they can just pull recent changes. Not ideal, but pretty workable