repository size too big

[aryx]

We're using tree-sitter repositories as submodules in semgrep (see https://github.com/returntocorp/ocaml-tree-sitter-semgrep/blob/main/.gitmodules ) and most repositories are fine except tree-sitter-rust which takes a very long time
to clone and update. I usually get connection timeout from github while doing a git submodule update just
because of tree-sitter-rust.

Would it be possible to reduce its size or make the submodule update operation faster?

[jwnrt]

If you only need the contents of the repository and not the history, adding shallow = true to a module in .gitmodules can help a lot.

[wetneb]

This is resolved in tree-sitter-rust-orchard, a fork of this grammar where generated files are not stored in the repository. I filtered them out from older revisions as well, retaining history for the actual source files.

I understand it's not an option for this repository, since it would invalidate all existing commit ids, but perhaps you're able to switch to our fork, @aryx?