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Re: cpio command not found

From
AWAllan Wind <allan_wind@lifeintegrity.com>
Date
Oct 31, 2007, 13:58 UTC
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<20071031135846.GU23408@lifeintegrity.com>
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<18216.35066.259686.376571@lisa.zopyra.com>
On 2007-10-31T07:54:02-0600, Bill Lear wrote:
> 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://.

git may be build and run on two different hosts, so while the build-time check is good there should be a run-time check as well.

/Allan
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  1. Bill LearOct 31, 2007
  2. Karl HasselströmOct 31, 2007
  3. Bill LearOct 31, 2007
  4. Allan WindOct 31, 2007
  5. David SymondsOct 31, 2007
  6. Erik MouwOct 31, 2007
  7. Johannes SchindelinOct 31, 2007
  8. Get rid of cpio in git-clone (was: Re: cpio command not found)Erik Mouw, Oct 31, 2007
  9. Jeff KingOct 31, 2007
  10. Mike HommeyOct 31, 2007

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