From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2009 16:00:43 GMT
Subject: Re: Distribution size
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0909261759410.4985@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <4ABE3091.5040600@syntevo.com>

Hi,

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Thomas Singer wrote:

> > 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.

Of course, the Git installer does nothing like you claim.

> 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.

If I see something in it for myself, I might want to help.

Ciao,
Dscho