GNU bug report logs - #65720
Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much

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Message #61 received at 65720 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Josselin Poiret <dev <at> jpoiret.xyz>
Cc: 65720 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#65720: Guile-Git-managed checkouts grow way too much
Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2023 16:37:50 +0200

Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org> skribis:

> It would also be pretty bad for closure size:
>
> $ guix size guile-git | tail -1
> total: 106.6 MiB
> $ guix size guile-git git-minimal | tail -1
> total: 169.8 MiB
>
> It’s also not clear concretely how we’d add that dependency.  Try
> invoking ‘git’ from $PATH and print a warning if it doesn’t work?

A solution to this particular problem is coming:

  https://issues.guix.gnu.org/65866

Ludo’.

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