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
>
> However:
>
>     Found valid signature for 
> /gnu/store/jijqv58gszv4wa4j92l3aj0f9znrj7ly-git-2.6.3
>     From http://hydra.gnu.org/nar/jijqv58gszv4wa4j92l3aj0f9znrj7ly-git-2.6.3
>     Downloading jijqv5...-git-2.6.3 (247.2MiB installed)...
>      http://hydra.gnu.org/nar/jijqv58gszv4wa4j92l3aj0f9znrj7ly-git-2.6.3 
> 792KiB/s 02:19 | 107.9MiB transferred
>
> Why the difference?

See <http://bugs.gnu.org/21949>.

Ludo’.