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Re: Reducing git size by building libgit.so

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Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
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Jun 12, 2019, 09:46 UTC
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On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 4:42 PM Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> wrote:

> I.e. we'd just have one git binary, everything else symlinking to that,
> and we'd route to the right program by inspecting argv, which we mostly
> do already.

If I remember correctly libcurl.so startup time was the reason it's split out of "git" binary, so we can't just merge everything into one (*). But yeah merging some back is not a bad idea.

(*) but maybe "git" binary has gotten much slower overall, or libcurl.so much faster that it does not matter anymore. That problem was like 10 years ago.

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Duy
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  2. brian m. carlsonJun 11, 2019
  3. Duy NguyenJun 12, 2019
  4. Paul SmithJun 12, 2019
  5. Johannes SchindelinJun 13, 2019
  6. Paul SmithJun 13, 2019
  7. Junio C HamanoJun 13, 2019
  8. brian m. carlsonJun 12, 2019
  9. Johannes SixtJun 13, 2019
  10. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonJun 12, 2019
  11. Duy NguyenJun 12, 2019
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