Clifford Caoile wrote: > >From looking at the installer source, I see it uses "CreateHardLink" > to hard link all git internal programs, for supposed space savings. > However I can't really confirm that it works, since my NTFS-based git > install directory also shows "100MB in use".
Explorer lies. They are in fact hard links; the actual usage of git/bin is 22704 kb, and the total install size is 37701 kb according to du. You have to remember this is a bundle of software approximately equivalent to the following packages on a *nix system: coreutils, findutils, perl, bash, vim, gawk, bzip2, gzip, sed, tcl, tk, curl, openssl, openssh, rxvt, gpg, libiconv, libexpat, libapr, libsvn, libneon, .... AND git. Brian
