From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Marius Storm-Olsen Subject: Re: Distribution size Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:48:08 +0200 Message-ID: <4AC0B088.9090101@gmail.com> References: <1253962653-sup-1882@nixos> <4ABE3091.5040600@syntevo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin , Marc Weber To: Thomas Singer X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Sep 28 14:48:39 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 1MsFec-0003KY-FF for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:48:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752833AbZI1MsO (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:48:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752819AbZI1MsO (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:48:14 -0400 Received: from ey-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.78.27]:50117 "EHLO ey-out-2122.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752281AbZI1MsN (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 08:48:13 -0400 Received: by ey-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 4so68764eyf.19 for ; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:48:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=PenEw+k9Qb6yV3pXeqK2hX1QbBXSoVHFYB2j+FvIX+M=; b=DybVAau89GGqnaOcherTcZrnsIzI0m9P8SEfHMH/0g+hbz9sRy0SvvYKDPz0S0Mkp4 GXPVLavLyfPn95mkk0vOxReM2m1DVzjM+PYXnMgl4KKzxE1dLq2tD5hKCUPBrrxiyB2m QbSQGKal5p/WLWjbEcBQofUNtWR/9xWrKSAsY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=QtDSPS8hgnD5DsMEVV/o06NZZZk5HGOKd2FcuChlvHV5XOwGhwWxzYCS7g1H+K+GHS jdPnWd6tkB4WQxFO2r2LwKTIQkCpXwU+zeG2XdMi1ov6F4ZfJbeTXdvhqyM/IC15SRoy onlr1i5d0lwVShcL++mY7BiP99ZWBjL2d5l0k= Received: by 10.210.101.1 with SMTP id y1mr3657854ebb.67.1254142097042; Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:48:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?172.24.90.95? ([62.70.27.104]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm562868eyd.37.2009.09.28.05.48.16 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 28 Sep 2009 05:48:16 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090812 Lightning/0.9 Thunderbird/2.0.0.23 ThunderGit/0.1a Mnenhy/0.7.6.666 In-Reply-To: <4ABE3091.5040600@syntevo.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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