Re: Remove diff machinery dependency from read-cache

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jan 22, 2010, 03:58 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001211950480.13231@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1001211119130.13231@localhost.localdomain>

On Thu, 21 Jan 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> It's not just that one file either. I get:
> 
> 	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ du -s /home/torvalds/libexec/git-core
> 	45640	/home/torvalds/libexec/git-core (before)
> 	33508	/home/torvalds/libexec/git-core (after)
> 
> so we're talking 12MB of diskspace here.

Btw, with the few built-in patches I've sent, it's now

	[torvalds@nehalem git]$ du -s /home/torvalds/libexec/git-core
	27876	/home/torvalds/libexec/git-core

so they're worth about 5.5M of disk-space.

Of course, without debugging and with -Os, the difference is much smaller, and libexec ends up being "just" 8.6MB in size. There are still a number of trivial programs that could be made builtin.

Optimally, I suspect just things like 'git-daemon' and the remote helpers would be actual separate binaries.

		Linus