From: "SZEDER Gábor" <szeder.dev@gmail.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: Elmar Pruesse <p@ucdenver.edu>,
"git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Reducing git size by building libgit.so
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 12:25:37 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190612102537.GI4012@szeder.dev> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y32787k9.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>
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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-06-12 10:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-11 19:52 Reducing git size by building libgit.so Elmar Pruesse
2019-06-11 23:48 ` brian m. carlson
2019-06-12 9:29 ` Duy Nguyen
2019-06-12 13:57 ` Paul Smith
2019-06-12 23:31 ` brian m. carlson
2019-06-13 19:19 ` Johannes Sixt
2019-06-13 7:51 ` Johannes Schindelin
2019-06-13 17:28 ` Paul Smith
2019-06-13 18:23 ` Junio C Hamano
2019-06-12 9:41 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2019-06-12 9:46 ` Duy Nguyen
2019-06-12 10:25 ` SZEDER Gábor [this message]
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