From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Singer Subject: Re: Distribution size Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:06:26 +0200 Message-ID: <4AC1CE12.8040406@syntevo.com> References: <1253962653-sup-1882@nixos> <4ABE3091.5040600@syntevo.com> <4AC0B088.9090101@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Johannes Schindelin , Marc Weber To: Marius Storm-Olsen X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Sep 29 11:06:36 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 1MsYfJ-0001xc-Op for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:06:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753462AbZI2JGY (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:06:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753222AbZI2JGX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:06:23 -0400 Received: from syntevo.com ([85.214.39.145]:41334 "EHLO syntevo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751316AbZI2JGX (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 05:06:23 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) with ESMTP id 3180337CB5F User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: <4AC0B088.9090101@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.96.0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: 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? -- Best regards, Thomas Singer ============= syntevo GmbH http://www.syntevo.com http://blog.syntevo.com 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 > >