Comment by Hackbraten

What I find remarkable is that for at least a decade, i.e., long before LLM scrapers were a thing, GitHub engineers have been reaching out to popular package manager projects, asking them to do away with shallow clones [0] [1]. They basically used the same reasoning as your comment did.

[0]: https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/pull/9383

[1]: https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods/issues/4989#issuecomm...