Re: Distribution size
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- Thomas Singer <thomas.singer@syntevo.com>
- Date
- Sep 29, 2009, 09:06 UTC
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- <4AC1CE12.8040406@syntevo.com>
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- <4AC0B088.9090101@gmail.com>
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:
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> 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 > >