From: Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:54:02 GMT
Subject: Re: cpio command not found
Message-ID: <18216.35066.259686.376571@lisa.zopyra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20071031133039.GA29065@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>

On Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 14:30:39 (+0100) Karl Hasselström writes:
>On 2007-10-31 06:51:30 -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
>When you clone with -l, git uses cpio to hardlink to the original
>repository. What has changed is that -l is now used by default when
>cloning a repository that's accessed via the file system (as opposed
>to over some network protocol).
>
>To work around this, specify the repository location with file://, and
>git won't try to hardlink (and hence won't try to use cpio).

Hmm, thanks for the workaround, but I don't altogether like leaving
things like this.

If the system does not have cpio, I think the build of git should
complain and fail, or it should activate code that treats any
repository accessed over the file system as it would file://.

No sense in leaving this surprise to the user so late in the cycle.


Bill