2008/6/19 Chris Ridd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On 18 Jun 2008, at 23:37, Shawn Walker wrote:
>
>> What exactly is in this git package?
>
> Everything, guis and manpages included, from <http://git.or.cz/>.
> Mostly the space is taken by the 106 binaries, the majority being ~
> 2MB in size when stripped (and 6MB when not).
>
>> git packages for linux are typically < 300KiB.
>
> I'll look into that. But perhaps you're thinking of the "GNU
> interactive tools" git, not the "stupid content tracker" git, which is
> a popular distributed version control system like mercurial?
>
> However comparing the binary sizes with what gets put on a Linux box
> or zone would be interesting.

No, I was looking at a package related to git, but apparently just one of them.

Still, about 11MiB as you later posted fits with what I found here:
http://git.or.cz/#download

Glad you figured it out.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker
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