boilerplate has a 4mb footprint - why? - html5boilerplate

I'm using eclipse for html5, js & css3.
On starting a new project, eclipse offered to start it using boilerplate. After a little research, it seemed a good thing to try. But on zipping the project up to send to a tester, I found I had a small app with a very large 4mb footprint...
I've found the culprit in myProject/.git/objects/pack
the file is
pack-8bbfc27fb4f49b9b8418123879a14af5e5dd861c.pack and is 3.8mb
Any ideas what this is for? Is it something eclipse has added?
Cheers

The .git directory is only used by the Git version control system. We use Git - as many other open source projects do - to manage the source code of the project.

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I have compiled QSQLITE2 plugin. I simply entered plugin directory in Qt source code:
c:\Qt\Qt5.2.0\5.2.0\Src\qtbase\src\plugins\sqldrivers\sqlite
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The sqlite.dll is in the application directory when running it.
When I run application in debug mode, it crashes in some assembly file, but in stack trace I can see that it's somewhere inside sqlite.dll, in sqlite_step symbol. That's all I know.
Note 1) I have another plugin dll, the my3.dll, which uses QSQLITE plugin (it's for sqlite3) and is linked with sqlite3.dll and this one loads just fine. I have compiled QSQLITE plugin myself as well (even there was the one provided with Qt, that's because Qt linked statically to sqlite3 and I wanted it to link dynamically to sqlite3.dll).
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Any hints what might be wrong? What else can I check?
EDIT:
I've just performed a test: I deleted my.dll from plugins to avoid loading it at all. Then I added code to main.cpp:
QSqlDatabase::addDatabase("QSQLITE2", ":memory:");
Thing is, that it also crashed, with the very same stack trace (at this very line, I debugged it). Thus I think there's something wrong with sqlite2 Qt plugin, but I'm still unable to tell what. I looked up for other sqlite.dll, I just downloaded the one from sqlite.org: http://www.sqlite.org/sqlitedll-2_8_17.zip - so it's official build, but it's the exactly the same file I had and it also fails the same way.
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This makes sense, but just one more thing that bugs me - qsqlited.dll (for sqlite3) had no problem linking with sqlite3.dll. No matter if I compiled debug or release - the single sqlite3.dll worked with both debug and release plugins. Anyone has an idea how is that possible? Please comment if you do, I'd appreciate it.

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How can I create an installer? My clients doesn't have any JVM and I don't want to ship JDK or JRE along, because they have big size.
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free basic version or very cheap ($30) for 'enterprise'
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