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And what if you find a bug, and want to regress to a previous version?

What is so cumbersome about downloading a project's history?

Well, some projects have been around for a while. "All the history" can be a LOT of history.

Actually, even for the Linux kernel, it's only a few hundred megabyte.

"Only" a few hundred megabyte is "really a lot" in many situations.

My bare Linux repository comes to 1.2GB. A git gc run got it down to 1.1GB.

Oh, true. I just checked. I think I mixed up two numbers.