Extraordinary repo size

[andrewwhitecdw]

FYI on these AI findings. I was curious why the repo took so long to download.

Why This Repository Is So Large (771MB)
Primary Cause: Git History Contains Generated Documentation Sites (90% of size)
The repository uses mike (MkDocs versioning plugin) which commits built HTML sites to git for versioning. This has resulted in:

• 703MB in git pack file (91% of total repo size)
• 436,437 git objects stored
• Multiple versioned builds (v2.15, v2.17, v2.18, v2.19, v2.20) all committed to history
• Generated HTML files from site/ deployments are stored forever in git history
  Git History Examples:
  Deployed X to v2.20 with MkDocs 1.6.1 and mike 2.1.3
  Deployed X to v2.19 with MkDocs 1.6.1 and mike 2.1.3
  Deployed X to v2.18 with MkDocs 1.6.1 and mike 2.1.3
  Secondary Cause: Large Media Files in Current Docs (63M docs/ directory)
• 37MB: docs/home/img/new-navigation2-19.mp4
• 1.6MB each: Two PNG screenshots in SSO authentication section
• Many 300-500KB screenshots throughout docs
  Note: .gitignore excludes site/ (current build directory) but NOT the versioned subdirectories (v2.15/, v2.16/, etc.) that mike creates, so those accumulate in git history.