Reduce repo size for faster initial clones

[sinamomken]

Github repository of "quast" is very large for an initial clone (more than 500MB).
I am not sure why it is so massive, specially that I doubt it contains ~500MB of code.
If most of this size is because of large binaries or test data, I suggest to move those binary files out of repository and download them if necessary upon the first run.
A SCM repository is not a good place for storing large binaries.

[alexeigurevich]

Hi, the key reasons of such size are: (a) external tools binaries (b) test data (references and assemblies mostly) and (c) huge history (lasting for 5 years including many huge refactorings). We will definitely work on reducing the size of the repo by moving (a) and (b) to some external repo and by truncating (c) to some reasonable state.

[sinamomken]

Thank you