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| author |   mitchell <70453897+orbitalquark@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-02-03 11:57:39 -0500 |
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| committer | mitchell <70453897+orbitalquark@users.noreply.github.com> | 2021-02-03 11:57:39 -0500 |
| commit | 4aeca0e7ccfa0a37e384e2bab1996952be6c7ce3 (patch) | |
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| parent | e0d8a0abb03029e6ac0a482c4aa9498f0d6e9de2 (diff) | |
| download | textadept-4aeca0e7ccfa0a37e384e2bab1996952be6c7ce3.tar.gz textadept-4aeca0e7ccfa0a37e384e2bab1996952be6c7ce3.zip | |
Updated FAQ mentioning initial Git repository size and how to shrink it.
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diff --git a/docs/faq.md b/docs/faq.md index 63c0f014..789e3bec 100644 --- a/docs/faq.md +++ b/docs/faq.md @@ -2,7 +2,8 @@ **Q:** If Textadept is so minimalist, why are the downloads around 10MB in size and the -unzipped folders 10s of MBs in size? +unzipped folders 10s of MBs in size? Why is the Git repository more than 50MB in +size? **A:** Each download contains 2 executables: a GUI version and a terminal version. @@ -14,6 +15,11 @@ the Linux executables statically link in a newer version of libstdc++. Finally, nightly builds are compiled with debug symbols enabled in order to aid debugging of various issues. +The Git repository is an export of an underlying Mercurial repository and is not +compressed or optimized for size. After the initial clone, you can run +`git gc --aggressive` to reduce its footprint to about a third of the original +size. + - - - **Q:** |