Long repository clone time

[PiggybankStudios]

I've noticed this repository takes a little white to clone whenever I am setting up a new project. I suspect it's probably due to the example gifs (and/or versions of these or other large files in the repo history). Is there anything that can be done to reduce the repository size for an unmodified git clone operation? I suspect there is probably a way to download the repository without history given some switch on clone, which would also help, but I wonder if there's something that can be done to "archive" this history or maybe move the gifs to a non-master branch?

[PiggybankStudios]

For reference it just took about 35 seconds to clone. Also the folder currently takes about 700MB on disk (354MB for the .git folder and 339MB from the "test/in" folder)

[notnullnotvoid]

That's the testing/benchmarking data. The idea was for contributors to be able to pull down the repo and use the same setup that I use to test their changes, while normal users just download the header file from the repo or from the latest release. If you have a workflow that requires cloning the repo (for example as an automated build step), let me know and I'll look at moving the test setup to a separate repo and scrubbing it from the history.