The observant bird can sometimes easily catch a huge worm
summary
A simple 1-liner fix in the GitHub Actions workflow flips the Pages deploy to overwrite history instead of committing every docs generation, pruning the GitHub Pages branch history. The repository size drops from about 2.9 GB to roughly 160 MB, a reduction of about 18× (reported as ~20×). The change uses the existing GitHub Action option and works immediately, dramatically shrinking clone size and CI storage costs.
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