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<p dir="auto">I don’t quite see the need to upload the full history. Can’t you create a zip file without the .git directory and upload that instead?</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Sure, there are workarounds. But by default, Heroku (and perhaps other similar systems) work by doing a <code class="notranslate">git push</code> and pushing to an empty remote repository involves transferring the entire git history.</p>
<blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Overall, I think of 400MB more as 0.4GB, or maybe even the size of a Denmark extract. It’s not the biggest concern to me.</p>
</blockquote>
<p dir="auto">Personally I think it's <del>madness</del> surprising for a repository with a few dozen code files to have hundreds of megabytes of historical baggage dragged around with them wherever they are needed. Perhaps we don't notice it because we've already run <code class="notranslate">git clone</code> once and have forgotten having to twiddle our thumbs while all that stuff was downloaded, never to be needed.</p>
<p dir="auto">But in general, it seems like given <a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/tomhughes/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/tomhughes">@tomhughes</a> is against fixing the history and it's not a concern to <a class="user-mention notranslate" data-hovercard-type="user" data-hovercard-url="/users/mmd-osm/hovercard" data-octo-click="hovercard-link-click" data-octo-dimensions="link_type:self" href="https://github.com/mmd-osm">@mmd-osm</a> then I'll file this under "nice to have, but there are more important things to work on" and close this issue.</p>

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