bug#65720: Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much

[Jelle Licht]

Hi Ludo,

> 
> On 4 Sep 2023, at 23:49, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> Of course having to re-clone entire repositories every 9 months is
> ridiculous, but storing gigabytes of packs is worse IMO (I’m
> specifically thinking about the Guix repo, which every users copies via
> ‘guix pull’).

Please ignore if it doesn’t make sense, or would not make a practical 
difference for the current issue, but wouldn’t a local clone do the trick here? 
As in, clone from the ‘clogged’ local repo, move over fresh clone to old 
location.

Kr, Jelle