From: Karl Hasselström <kha@treskal.com>
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 13:30:39 GMT
Subject: Re: cpio command not found
Message-ID: <20071031133039.GA29065@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk>
In-Reply-To: <18216.31314.990545.518458@lisa.zopyra.com>

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).

-- 
Karl Hasselström, kha@treskal.com
      www.treskal.com/kalle