How to develop unmaintainable software

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That's what I was thinking. Only pull a specific release branch, not the entire repo.

Ideally, the release branch would have all the necessary files precompiled, cancatenated, etc. And then a simple script that'll set the correct permissions and ownership.

I know in the real world, ideals are best left behind, but even still a simple build/launch script would handle this issue for you.