Avoid the massive end-to-end tax of default full history clones

This post introduces the Git Clone Override Policy, a new mechanism to automatically enforce optimized Git clone strategies. It details the development of a lightweight Go binary that intercepts default `git clone` commands and applies a repository-defined policy (TOML file) to perform shallow, partial, and sparse clones. The post also outlines the seven stages of maximum Git clone optimization and discusses the benefits of declarative configuration for standardization and reliability.