Why is cloning a Git repo much slower than downloading an equivalent-sized file?

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Jarred Sumner on X: "It’s hard to imagine why cloning a git repo should be much slower than downloading an equivalent-sized file

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It’s hard to imagine why cloning a git repo should be much slower than downloading an equivalent-sized file

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Why does it matter if sandboxes start up in 0.0001 nanoseconds if I then spend the next 20s downloading the git repo?

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