[PATCH 0/2] make git installation footprint smaller

Ever wonder where that extra 5MB of disk space went that you thought you had? Well, it turns out that git isn't being quite as space-efficient as it could be. Some files that could be installed as links are instead being installed as full copies of the original.

With these two patches, we shrink the installation footprint of git by making hard or symbolic links for non-builtin programs and for those binaries installed in the bin directory. We already do this for binaries installed in libexec. This can reduce the size of a git installation on the order of 10-30%. Probably about 5-10MB. Whoopee!!!

Enjoy.

Brandon Casey (2):
  Makefile: link builtins residing in bin directory to main git binary
    too
  Makefile: make hard/symbolic links for non-builtins too

 Makefile |   15 ++++++++++++---
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)