Re: Distribution size

[Thomas Singer <thomas.singer@syntevo.com>]

Hi Marius,

> Also, you don't need everything in msysgit to distribute, only for development.

How should I find out what is required to *run* all git commands, except of
trying it myself? Is there a document available somewhere?

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Marius Storm-Olsen wrote:
> Thomas Singer said the following on 26.09.2009 17:17:
>>> Funny.  Git for Windows is less than 12MB [*1*].
>>
>> Well, the portable Git bundle compressed with 7zip is approx. 11MB,
>> the Git installer (maybe also using 7zip internally) is at approx.
>> the same size. Unpacked/installed on disk they are at 138MB/131MB.
>> If you try to compress it with zip, it will reduce to approx. 70MB
>> which still is quite large.
>>
>> We are interested, too, in having a small(er) bundle, because we
>> want to distribute Git binaries with our Git GUI front-end,
>> SmartGit, so the user will (have the option to) get an
>> all-inclusive-bundle.
> 
> [Please, never ever top-post on the Git mailing list, thanks]
> 
> Most of the git-*.exe are identical duplicates, so most of that can be
> nuked. Also, you don't need everything in msysgit to distribute, only
> for development. You should be able to make a fairly small distribution
> for usage only.
> 
> -- 
> .marius
> 
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