mary marchini

We can have a `ignore_deps` if that's the case. Do you have stats on how much the size would grow with those dependencies?

As a first step, would you be willing to add add `//build` and `//buildtools` dependencies, drop all ignores we have on the script, and add `deps/gn` which is updates alongside...

Cool! I'll try to get this working with `node-core-utils`, hopefully when we upgrade to V8 8.5 we can also have those deps added and then we can simplify the whole...

I'm ready to push super hard for us to drop msvc and support only clang like V8 does 😅

That's with the full fetch, which includes binary files and the git folder, those folder are considerably smaller when cloning a single commit

I don't think so, but maybe we can `git clean -xdf` the repositories. Otherwise we'll need to stick with the approach we have today.

> those folders are git repo. git clean -xdf likely not to work. The folders yes, but all the binaries that depot_tools downloads on the side aren't and can be...

We can start by creating the `main` branch with an empty README, and then slowly we can work on the other changes there (via PRs) and then once we're confident...

Definitely. I'm proposing these changes because I do believe they will make the overall process _faster_ (or at least _simpler_), but we'll definitely need some experimentation in order to get...

Besides dropping the `canary-base` branch, what are your thoughts on the other changes?