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
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