bug#21949: git-2.6.3: 108M download, but 23M installed

[Ludovic Courtès]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) skribis:

> Florian Paul Schmidt <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I noticed this earlier and wonder if it's a bug or not:
>>
>> When downloading the git-2.6.3 substitute from hydra it is a hefty
>> 108M download, but installed in the store it's just 23M.
>
> The fact that the result is small is due to hard links (under
> libexec/git-core), resulting from deduplication performed by the daemon:

I figured a simple fix is to have ‘make install’ use symlinks instead of
hard links.  Done in 1a59b6d.

Ludo’.