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Re: cpio command not found

From
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org>
Date
Oct 31, 2007, 19:48 UTC
Message-ID
<20071031194821.GA16215@glandium.org>
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<20071031140655.GA8802@gateway.home>
On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:06:55PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:
> > 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).
> 
> Why cpio? What is wrong with ln(1) (every Unix should have one) or
> link(2) ?

Since git-clone is not yet a builtin, and is actually a shell script, it makes more sense to use cpio than ln.

Mike
Previous: Jeff King
Message 10 of 10 in “cpio command not found”
  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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