Comment by jarofgreen

I'm not OP but I'll guess .... lock files with old versions of libs in. The latest version of a library may be v2 but if most users are locked to v1.267.34 you need all the old versions too.

However a lot of the "data in git repositories" projects I see don't have any such need, and then ...

> Why not just have a post-commit hook render the current HEAD to static files, into something like GitHub Pages?

... is a good plan. Usually they make a nice static website with the data that's easy for humans to read though.