fix: macos intel build

.github/workflows/release.yml

@@ -35,9 +35,13 @@ jobs:
           - os: ubuntu-latest
             platform: linux
             arch: arm64
-          - os: macos-latest
+          # Use macos-13 (Intel) for x64 builds to get correct dugite git binaries
+          # Note: macos-13 is deprecated but macos-15-large (Intel) requires paid plan
+          # When macos-13 is fully deprecated, switch to macos-15-large or use cross-compilation workaround
+          - os: macos-13
             platform: mac
             arch: x64
+          # Use macos-latest (ARM64) for arm64 builds
           - os: macos-latest
             platform: mac
             arch: arm64

docs/Release.md

@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+# Release App
+
+See [.github/workflows/release.yml](.github/workflows/release.yml)
+
+## macOS Runner Architecture Mismatch Issue
+
+If you build x64 version on an ARM64 runner, dugite will download ARM64 git binaries. When users run the x64 app on Intel Mac, it fails with error: `spawn Unknown system error -86 (EBADEXEC)`.
+
+Solution: Use architecture-specific runners:
+
+- Use `macos-13` for x64 builds (free)
+- Use `macos-latest` for arm64 builds (free)
+
+See `.github/workflows/release.yml` matrix configuration.
+
+### Future: When macos-13 is Deprecated
+
+When GitHub fully deprecates `macos-13`, you have two options:
+
+Option A (Simple, Costs Money):
+Replace `macos-13` with `macos-15-large` in release.yml. Note that `-large` runners require GitHub Team or Enterprise plan and incur charges even for public repos.
+
+Option B (Complex, Free):
+Use npm_config_arch environment variable to force dugite download correct architecture on ARM64 runner:
+
+```yaml
+- name: Install dependencies
+  run: pnpm install
+  env:
+    npm_config_arch: ${{ matrix.arch }}
+```
+
+This tells dugite's postinstall script which architecture to download, regardless of host machine. See `node_modules/dugite/script/config.js` for details.
+
+## App Size Reduction
+
+dugite bundles a full git distribution. The package contains unnecessary components for TidGi:
+
+- 141 git command symlinks (all point to main git binary, only needed if directly invoking `git-add` instead of `git add`)
+- Git LFS (13MB, TiddlyWiki wikis don't use LFS)
+- Git Credential Manager + .NET runtime (26MB on macOS, TidGi embeds credentials directly in URLs)
+
+afterPack script automatically removes these, saving approximately 40-60MB per platform. See `scripts/trimDugite.ts` for implementation details.

package.json

@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
   "name": "tidgi",
   "productName": "TidGi",
   "description": "Customizable personal knowledge-base with Github as unlimited storage and blogging platform.",
-  "version": "0.13.0-prerelease15",
+  "version": "0.13.0-prerelease16",
   "license": "MPL 2.0",
   "packageManager": "pnpm@10.24.0",
   "scripts": {

scripts/afterPack.ts

@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
  */
 import fs from 'fs-extra';
 import path from 'path';
-import { trimUnusedGitCommands } from './trimDugite';
 
 /**
  * Running afterPack hook
@@ -83,13 +82,11 @@ export default (
 
     console.log('Copy dugite');
     // it has things like `git/bin/libexec/git-core/git-add` link to `git/bin/libexec/git-core/git`, to reduce size, so can't use `dereference: true, recursive: true` here.
-    const dugiteDestination = path.join(cwd, 'node_modules', 'dugite');
     fs.copySync(
       path.join(sourceNodeModulesFolder, 'dugite'),
-      dugiteDestination,
+      path.join(cwd, 'node_modules', 'dugite'),
       { dereference: false },
     );
-    trimUnusedGitCommands(dugiteDestination, platform);
 
     if (platform === 'win32') {
       console.log('Copy registry-js (Windows only)');