On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 06:50:37PM +0600, Alexander Kuleshov wrote: > Standard user has no need in debugging information. This patch adds > DEBUG=1 option to compile git with debugging symbols and compile without > it by default. This explanation is missing why it is beneficial _not_ to have the debugging information. I expect the answer is "it makes the executable smaller". And that is true, but it gets smaller still if you run "strip" on the result: $ make CFLAGS= >/dev/null 2>&1 && wc -c <git 2424248 $ make CFLAGS=-g >/dev/null 2>&1 && wc -c <git 4500816 $ strip git && wc -c <git 2109200 So I am not sure who this is helping. If you are size-conscious, you should use strip, in which case the "-g" flag does not matter (and we even have "make strip" to help you). Is there some other reason to avoid the debugging information? -Peff -- 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