You only delay saving time and bandwidth — you eventually have to clone the repo for any ops other than checking the head SHAs and unless the repo is rarely updated, the delay will be short.
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Use git-archive or curl: gzipped source code is always smaller than a full versioned repo…
You don't need the full versioned repo, just the top commit (ie cloning with depth=1). Also, git compresses the objects before sending them.