vendor\msysgit\libexec\git-core dir contains 1.45mb git.exe duplicated 110 times.

[SchizoDuckie]

This is why your download is 250mb zipped. Please fix this by creating symlinks or .bat files

(Removed the list so I do not have to scroll like crazy)

[samvasko]

Oh man, why the hell...

[samvasko]

relevant issue msysgit/msysgit#58

[samvasko]

This looks like more complex than just removing

[MartiUK]

There are also some perl scripts in that folder that only work with the git.exe for example:

Symlinks may work but will require UAC (This will be a pain for enterprise users), I suggest the batch file method.

I've got a local copy with most of them recreated as batchfiles and a setup script.

I'll send a pull request when it's done.

[samvasko]

Integrating it into build/pack script it would be great!

[MartiUK]

@Bliker Will try my best, I'm more of a python guy myself.

[samvasko]

I can port it if it is a trouble. The language bar is diverse already. :D

[samvasko]

The script is not working very well. Not at all I should say.

[MartiUK]

@Bliker Yes, I was wondering why you merged it, I have some more commits to pull, but very busy.

[samvasko]

Well I wanted to work on it myself and I just about finished it. Check the git-cleanup branch. I had to dig bit into git source and use checksums to find the duplicates.

[MartiUK]

Most of them (the duplicates) do not work for me anyway, especially the
perl scripts.
On 2 Jan 2014 23:59, "Samuel Vasko" notifications@github.com wrote:

Well I wanted to work on it myself and I just about finished it. Check the
git-cleanup branch. I had to dig bit into git source and use checksums to
find the duplicates.

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[SamHasler]

Would it be possible to have a setup option to remove these files for users that never use the git-* format?

[samvasko]

I think no. Some of the perl/sh scripts still use the dashed version.

[cartel0x27]

Looks like this is still an issue. You could look into using links on Windows (mklink.exe) instead of 110 copies of a .exe file.

[cartel0x27]

Fixed for me, when run from the libexec folder:

@echo off
dir /s git-*.exe | find "1,479,680" > fixexes.txt
for /F %%f IN ( fixexes.txt ) DO (
 @echo Processing %%f
 del %%f
 mklink  %%f git.exe
)
del fixexes.txt

I'd say this is to do with just zipping the files from msysgit. Zip files dont capture the fact that they were hard linked to begin with.