205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
|
205
206
207
208
209
210
211
212
213
214
215
216
217
218
219
|
-
+
|
Fossil is easy to build from sources. Just run
"<tt>./configure && make</tt>" on POSIX systems and
"<tt>nmake /f Makefile.msc</tt>" on Windows.
Contrast a basic installation of Git, which takes up about
15 MiB on Debian 10 across 230 files, not counting the contents of
<tt>/usr/share/doc</tt> or <tt>/usr/share/locale</tt>. If you need to
deploy to any platform where you cannot count facilities like the POSIX
deploy to any platform where you cannot count on facilities like the POSIX
shell, Perl interpreter, and Tcl/Tk platform needed to fully use Git
as part of the base platform, the full footprint of a Git installation
extends to more like 45 MiB and thousands of files. This complicates
several common scenarios: Git for Windows, chrooted Git servers,
Docker images...
Some say that Git more closely adheres to the Unix philosophy,
|