When catalyst creates snapshots it currently ignores some directories, but these do not include '.git'. This causes snapshots to become quite large when the tree is a git repository. Reproducible: Always
Created attachment 450328 [details, diff] trivial patch
Fixed in https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/catalyst.git/commit/catalyst/targets/snapshot.py?id=59b60e53020395d1eb4c9542ffb63561bbb87513 Thanks for the report