cut scripts that pull in entire source trees should filter out .git objects.
fstests images are particularly bloated due to their presence, with an extra 28M+:
./rapido cut -B fstests-xfs && lsinitrd initrds/myinitrd |awk '/\/.git\// { totalbytes += $5 } END {print "got: " totalbytes}'
got: 29911893