Hi Marius, > Also, you don't need everything in msysgit to distribute, only for development. How should I find out what is required to *run* all git commands, except of trying it myself? Is there a document available somewhere? -- Best regards, Thomas Singer ============= syntevo GmbH http://www.syntevo.com http://blog.syntevo.com Marius Storm-Olsen wrote: > 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 > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html