From: Johan Herland Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:42:29 GMT Subject: [PATCH] Mention 'cpio' dependency in INSTALL Message-ID: <200710030142.30062.johan@herland.net> In-Reply-To: <3f4fd2640710021409q104a4204r522391912d5b5c8c@mail.gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Johan Herland --- On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Reece Dunn wrote: > Do you know if cpio is listed anywhere in required dependencies? Doing the following in the git repo: $ grep -r cpio * git-clone.sh: find objects -depth -print | cpio -pumd$l "$GIT_DIR/" || exit 1 git-merge.sh: cpio -0 -o >"$GIT_DIR/MERGE_SAVE" git-merge.sh: cpio -iuv <"$GIT_DIR/MERGE_SAVE" reveals that cpio is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation, nor in the requirements section of the INSTALL file. Have fun! ...Johan  INSTALL |    3 +++  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 289b046..f1eb404 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Issues of note:   - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of    the barebone Porcelainish scripts.   + - "cpio" is used by git-merge for saving and restoring the index, +  and by git-clone when doing a local (possibly hardlinked) clone. +   - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules,     but depending on your specific installation, you may not     have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have -- 1.5.3.3.1144.gf10f2