Re: git download size

[Ludovic Courtès]

Ricardo Wurmus <address@hidden> skribis:

> Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Can we make the git binary download smaller? I think it is one of the
>> largest ones now in Guix. Since git is a small tool it really
>> shouldn't be that large despite that Linus was involved and some
>> people say it may be a larger contribution for posterity than the
>> kernel ;)
>
> I just build git and this is what I see:
>
>     rekado in guix: du -sh 
> /gnu/store/jijqv58gszv4wa4j92l3aj0f9znrj7ly-git-2.6.3
>     23M       /gnu/store/jijqv58gszv4wa4j92l3aj0f9znrj7ly-git-2.6.3

The fix turned out to be simple enough: commit 1a59b6d should solve the
problem!

Ludo’.