Re: git binary size...

From: Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
Date: Jan 11, 2006, 19:14 UTC
Message-ID: <43C558FB.3030102@op5.se>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601111021450.5073@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> Guess what the difference is here?
> 
> 	[torvalds@g5 ~]$ du -sh bin/
> 	14M     bin/
> 	[torvalds@g5 ~]$ du -sh bin/
> 	5.8M    bin/
> 
> Give up?
> 
> In one case, "git" was compiled with the default options in the git 
> Makefile. In the other one, the "-g" was removed.
> 
> Now, maybe this is extra visible with PowerPC (32-bit) binaries, and it's 
> not as bad on x86, but it's still a bit distressing.
> 
> That "-g" doesn't buy users much of anything, and I doubt most developers 
> care that deeply most of the time either (and can easily add it when they 
> do care). It's left-over from long ago when it was much more useful.
> 
> So I'd suggest just removing it.
>

I'd suggest adding

strip:
	strip $(PROGRAMS)

install: strip

to Makefile instead. That way people working on various git-tools won't have to remember to override the CFLAGS when debugging new stuff.

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