The .git directory is larger. While we don't do a very good job at cleaning up, minimizing the size of the git repo isn't the number #1 goal.
See http://trac.sagemath.org/17353 On Sunday, November 16, 2014 6:01:45 PM UTC, John H Palmieri wrote: > > On Sunday, November 16, 2014 7:41:34 AM UTC-8, Volker Braun wrote: >> >> Hot on the heels of the 6.4 release, here is the first beta for the next >> version. As usual, get the "develop" git branch. >> >> Self-contained source tarball >> http://sage.sagedev.org/home/release/pub/sage-6.5.beta0.tar.gz >> > > I'm curious: why is this tarball almost 15% larger than the sage-6.4 > tarball? > > -- > John > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
