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Re: [PATCH] Add archive-tree, a cpio archive creator

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PDPaul Dickson <paul@permanentmail.com>
Date
Apr 25, 2005, 22:30 UTC
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On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 03:43:46 +0200, Rene Scharfe wrote:
> This patch adds archive-tree, a program to create a cpio archive of all
> files referenced by a given tree or commit object.  Why cpio and not
> e.g., tar?  The cpio format I chose (GNU cpio calls it "odc") is dead
> simple compared to any tar variant.  I was simply being lazy. :-P

Use the "newc" format. The "odc" will generate a lot of errors on a large filesystem (which I discovered this past weekend).

	-Paul
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