From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marc Weber Subject: Distribution size Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:11:00 +0200 Message-ID: <1253962653-sup-1882@nixos> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Sep 26 13:11:18 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MrVBM-0003Hr-I0 for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:11:16 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751443AbZIZLLF (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:11:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751351AbZIZLLE (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:11:04 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:47633 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750880AbZIZLLE (ORCPT ); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:11:04 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 26 Sep 2009 11:11:05 -0000 Received: from mawercer.at.xencon.net (EHLO mail.gmx.net) [83.246.111.127] by mail.gmx.net (mp040) with SMTP; 26 Sep 2009 13:11:05 +0200 X-Authenticated: #9006135 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1+0tJ1I/D+0AGyQYXjZ3jTLL+nFpNrlnR9MfK9xQ7 S+vYZZW1gT6m4D Received: by mail.gmx.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 26 Sep 2009 13:11:00 +0200 User-Agent: Sup/git X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.63 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, Has anyone thought about reducing distribution size ? comparison: git-1.6.4.4 i%du -hs . 115M . mercurial-1.0.2 i%du -hs . 5.4M . bazaar-1.10rc1 i%du -hs 21M . darcs-2.2.1 i%du -hs /nix/store/8xwfavyv22pvm3s60wvzcbq561fjk5di-darcs-2.2.1 nixos 32M . There was an attempt to reduce size by using a shared library in 2007: http://markmail.org/message/vzukaie4qvbghkq5 So is there a reason why git takes up so much more disk space other than that its using many small executables? Marc Weber