Building local can get slow when the working directory includes large folders, like the virtual environment for a larger project, as copying can take some time.

shutil.copytree has an ignore parameter, that could be used to exclude certain files/directories. For me, it would be intuitive to ignore files in .gitignore by default. A different project has implemented it like this, we could do something similar.

The easier option would be to ignore some default directories, then we would just do a call like this in driver.py, L.337

shutil.copytree(
    self.root,
    path,
    symlinks=True,
    dirs_exist_ok=True,
    ignore=shutil.ignore_patterns(".venv", "venv", "_build"),
)

What do you think?