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git-osx-installer package takes 4.3MB, but your git.bundle takes 150MB.

The problem is that the bundle contains exactly same binary 104 times (git, git-add, git-apply, etc. are identical files, 1.3MB each). These should be symlinks.

It might be ZIP's fault (doesn't support symlinks AFAIK). I distribute my apps as tar.bz2, and nobody complained yet.



Is he really shelling out for every git operation, or are those binaries just extra roughage for technical users?


ZIP on OS X supports symlinks.


I couldn't get it store hardlinks properly (using ditto). Do you know how to fix that?


corprew: the situation with hardlinks and the app size will improve over time. I just had a lot of more important things to do.

(sorry, cannot reply to you directly: no reply link)


is there a reason you can't write a script to make the links rather than zipping it up?




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