From: Paul Dickson <paul@permanentmail.com>
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:30:11 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add archive-tree, a cpio archive creator
Message-ID: <20050425153011.34c93b38.paul@permanentmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20050424014346.GA23083@lsrfire.ath.cx>

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