Alexander Kuleshov <[email protected]> writes: > Hello Jeff, > > Yes, main point is size of executable.
The Git executable is a few megabytes, i.e. 0.001% the size of a really small hard disk. The benefit seems really negligible to me. OTOH, debug information allow users to do better bug reports in case of crash (gdb, valgrind), which outweights by far the benefit of saving a handfull of megabytes IMHO. On a side note, I find it very frustrating when a program I use crashes, opens a bug report wizard, and end up telling me "sorry, your distro removed the debug symbols, recompile everything if you want to report a bug". I understand that for a few users, the size of executable matters. But this category of users should be able to find the "strip" target or something equivalent. -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
