Re: Distribution size

From: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2009, 12:48 UTC
Message-ID: <4AC0B088.9090101@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4ABE3091.5040600@syntevo.com>

Thomas Singer said the following on 26.09.2009 17:17:

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>> 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