Bundle zstd and libzstd with git-for-windows?

[mkoniczek]

More and more projects are relying on zstd being present as library or on the command line.

For x86_64, libzstd is ~390k, and the zstd executable about 90k.

Adding zstd to git-for-windows by default would help me a lot, I always find myself installing it from https://repo.msys2.org/msys/x86_64/ .

Maybe I am not alone? (And maybe there are very good reasons NOT to bundle it, too... would be curious about those)

[dscho]

The purpose of Git for Windows is really to bring Git to Windows.

While that implies that we have to ship quite a few Unix-like tools, it does not mean that we will include such tools unless they are needed for Git's own operations, or at least for historical reasons (needs of active contributors are sometimes a factor in deciding whether to include a tool or not).

Having said that, what you really are looking for is MSYS2. Git for Windows leverages MSYS2 and ships with a subset of its files. MSYS2 even sports a package management system called "pacman" to install more tools (including Git...), so why don't you give it a whirl?