Why does Arcane require a .env to be in the repo for a GitSync?

[stiggy87]

I'm very confused by this. I run my own gitea server, so having a .env is fine, until I want to mirror it to Github or some other more public facing repo.

Shouldn't it be cloning the repo as is and I can manually fill in the .env when I build and deploy? Nothing in the documentation states it (or I can't find it at least).