On Wed, Jun 12, 2019 at 11:41:10AM +0200, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > On Tue, Jun 11 2019, Elmar Pruesse wrote: > > The total compiled size of libexec/git-core is currently somewhere > > around 30 MB. This is largely due to a number of binaries linking > > statically against libgit.a. For some folks, every byte counts. I wonder whether those folks actually need such non-builtin git binaries like 'git-shell' or 'git-daemon' in the first place. > We still have some stand-alone binaries, but IIRC there's under 5 of > those with INSTALL_SYMLINKS. We could probably also just make those > built-ins to get the rest of the size benefits. > > I.e. we'd just have one git binary, everything else symlinking to that, > and we'd route to the right program by inspecting argv, which we mostly > do already. Let's not forget that commands like 'git-daemon' and 'git-shell' are better left as stand-alone programs.
