Large installation size on Linux · Issue #1212 · git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager (original) (raw)

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Description

The installation size on Linux is surprisingly large.

Looking at release https://github.com/git-ecosystem/git-credential-manager/releases/tag/v2.0.935

• Windows archive gcm-win-x86-2.0.935.zip extracted is 4.3 MB
• Linux archive gcm-linux_amd64.2.0.935.tar.gz extracted is 437 MB

The dotnet tool installation is also very large at 178 MB. After installing dotnet tool install git-credential-manager -g I measured with du -h .dotnet/tools:

424K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/pl 404K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/tr 408K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/pt-BR 536K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/ru 368K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/zh-Hans 420K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/de 416K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/es 420K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/it 452K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/ja 368K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/zh-Hant 424K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/ko 13M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win-arm64/native 13M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win-arm64 13M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/linux-musl-x64/native 13M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/linux-musl-x64 6.3M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/linux-arm/native 6.3M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/linux-arm 11M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/linux-x64/native 11M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/linux-x64 9.1M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/linux-arm64/native 9.1M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/linux-arm64 4.2M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win7-x64/native 4.2M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win7-x64 3.2M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win7-x86/native 3.2M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win7-x86 8.4M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win-x86/native 8.4M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win-x86 19M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/osx/native 19M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/osx 9.9M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win-x64/native 9.9M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win-x64 640K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/unix/lib/netcoreapp2.0 640K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/unix/lib 640K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/unix 36K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win/lib/netstandard2.0 720K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win/lib/netcoreapp2.0 756K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win/lib 756K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes/win 96M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/runtimes 420K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/fr 400K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any/cs 126M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0/any 126M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools/net6.0 126M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/tools 8.0K .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/images 178M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager/2.0.935 178M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935/git-credential-manager 178M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager/2.0.935 178M .dotnet/tools/.store/git-credential-manager