MinGW-w64 still needed?

[theking2]

Is mingw-w64 still needed when not installing MiniTTY? the latest Terminal is quite adequate. It adds 0.5GByte

[rimrul]

I'm not sure I understand the question. We don't include mingw-w64 in Git for Windows.

Are you talking about the /mingw64 folder? That would fit the size description according to windows explorer. That folder is absolutely necessary, but about 460mb of the size reported should be miscalculated hardlinks on most systems.

[dscho]

From Git for Windows' Known Issues:

Older versions of the Windows Explorer do not calculate Git for Windows' on-disk size correctly, as it is unaware of hard links. Therefore, it might look like Git for Windows takes up 1.5GB when in reality it is about a third of that.