From: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
To: Thomas Singer <thomas.singer@syntevo.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Marc Weber <marco-oweber@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Distribution size
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:48:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4AC0B088.9090101@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ABE3091.5040600@syntevo.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-09-28 12:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-26 11:11 Distribution size Marc Weber
2009-09-26 11:22 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-26 15:17 ` Thomas Singer
2009-09-26 16:00 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-28 12:48 ` Marius Storm-Olsen [this message]
2009-09-29 9:06 ` Thomas Singer
2009-09-29 10:47 ` Johannes Schindelin
2009-09-26 11:27 ` Jakub Narebski
2009-09-26 11:53 ` Tay Ray Chuan
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