A) consider using the --depth x option for clones, since we don't need the full history, this will help to improve performance. I don't think the restrictions apply to us?.

B) remove the email address from the author data.

C) investigate if it is possible to 'browse' a remote repository without first cloning/fetching. Browse in the project wizard does not have an scm context available to it, and we don't want to have to wait for a checkout just to browse.

D) extract common code from the git client and perforce client. Use the perforce client as the 'true' source.