That sounds entirely believable. At $PREVIOUS_JOB, the Puppet git repository was...

		threedaymonk on April 25, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Facebook's git repo is 54GB That sounds entirely believable. At $PREVIOUS_JOB, the Puppet git repository was large enough (several GB) that cloning it was painful, and new starters were handed a pruned repository via the local network so that they could get something done today.