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This is exactly the problem, unfortunately.

For somebody who knows a bit how things are set up, or is willing to spend 10 minutes researching, it's a no-brainer that you can just "git clone" entire linux kernel development history, or download entire wikipedia [0].

Alas, large number of scrapers are not willing to spend those 10 minutes, it would appear. So, here we are.

[0] https://dumps.wikimedia.org/

You can tell Claude to clone from github for Linux stuff all you want... it's still going to try web, and fail, before doing what you asked it to do.

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