[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] How can we reduce the size of this repository? (Issue #3849)

[Andy Allan]

> 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?

Sure, there are workarounds. But by default, Heroku (and perhaps other similar systems) work by doing a `git push` and pushing to an empty remote repository involves transferring the entire git history.

> 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.

Personally I think it's ~~madness~~ 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 `git clone` once and have forgotten having to twiddle our thumbs while all that stuff was downloaded, never to be needed.

But in general, it seems like given @tomhughes is against fixing the history and it's not a concern to @mmd-osm then I'll file this under "nice to have, but there are more important things to work on" and close this issue.

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