ramp i think just prebuilts the image/snapshot with the latest checkout version regularly [0]. do you think putting it into the image would address it?
Nice thing about the microvm is that you can snapshot it and restore it. Keeping the fs minimal is my goal. Snapshots restore much faster if they do not include 5GB of source code
[0] https://builders.ramp.com/post/why-we-built-our-background-a...