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cpio command not found

From
Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2007, 12:51 UTC
Message-ID
<18216.31314.990545.518458@lisa.zopyra.com>
I just cloned the latest git and it builds ok, but fails when I clone:

% uname -a Linux gronk.zopyra.com 2.4.9-21 #1 Thu Jan 17 14:16:30 EST 2002 i686 unknown

% git --version git version gitgui.0.8.4.g9c514

% git clone --bare ~/my_repo Initialized empty Git repository in /repos/git/my_repo/ /opt/git/bin/git-clone: line 297: cpio: command not found

So, should git not check this when it is building? I don't remember this dependence from earlier versions of git. I have been running git 1.4.xx on this machine for a while...

Bill
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  1. Bill LearOct 31, 2007
  2. Karl HasselströmOct 31, 2007
  3. Bill LearOct 31, 2007
  4. Allan WindOct 31, 2007
  5. David SymondsOct 31, 2007
  6. Erik MouwOct 31, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinOct 31, 2007
  8. Get rid of cpio in git-clone (was: Re: cpio command not found)Erik Mouw, Oct 31, 2007
  9. Jeff KingOct 31, 2007
  10. Mike HommeyOct 31, 2007

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