git

[Peter Korsgaard]

>>>>> "Denys" == Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com> writes:

Hi,

 Denys> /usr/app/git-1.6.2.4/libexec/git-core/* contains 64
 Denys> *megabytes* of executables.  :(

You're getting confused by the hard links - /usr/lib/git-core is ~8MB
on my Debian system.

 Denys> I don't like it too, but I decided I can't fix everything to
 Denys> my liking.  I just gave up on that.

 Denys> For curious reader, this is the whole list.
 Denys> Each 650k file is an ELF executable.
 Denys> Have no idea how code originally created by Linus
 Denys> ended up so messed up wrt size...

All the big execs are all links to the same program.

 Denys> # ls -l
 Denys> -rwxr-xr-x   91 root     root       652964 Apr 30 22:40 git-add

                     ^- 91 links.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard