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Bundling libpcre snapshot needlessly grows the repository #29

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mrkline opened this issue Aug 29, 2016 · 0 comments
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Bundling libpcre snapshot needlessly grows the repository #29

mrkline opened this issue Aug 29, 2016 · 0 comments

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mrkline commented Aug 29, 2016 •
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Since Git history keeps a copy of every file that has existed in a project's history, the size of a clone increases by (roughly) the size of a libpcre snapshot whenever a new one is added.

Instead, could the build process pull the library down from pcre.org or some other trustworthy source?
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