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Re: Interested in helping open source friends on HP-UX?

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H.Merijn Brand <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>
Date
Feb 18, 2015, 19:22 UTC
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On Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:47:16 -0800, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 06:46:04PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote:
> >
> >> Well, how can we help if we don't even know the limitations of that
> >> platform?
> >
> > I'm not sure, but I think the original call for help may have been "I
> > will give you shell access to these boxes if you want to play around".
> 
> Yeah, that probably was my bad---I didn't make it clear enough that the
> request for volunteer from H.Merijn was exactly that.

Plus some possible help in how HP-UX is organized plus maybe install more developer tools on request.

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> > It seems like we could use
> >
> >   (cd src && tar cf - .) | (cd dst && tar xf -)
> >
> > here as a more portable alternative. I don't think we can rely on rsync
> > being everywhere.
> 
> Thanks; I wasn't even aware that we used rsync in our tests.  We
> certainly do not want to rely on it.

You don't. It was a quick hack from me to see if this was the only cause of failure for that test

> Why not "cp -r src dst", though?
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Message 21 of 23 in “Interested in helping open source friends on HP-UX?”
  1. Junio C HamanoDec 11, 2014
  2. H.Merijn BrandFeb 18, 2015
  3. Michael J GruberFeb 18, 2015
  4. Jeff KingFeb 18, 2015
  5. Junio C HamanoFeb 18, 2015
  6. Jeff KingFeb 18, 2015
  7. Michael J GruberFeb 19, 2015
  8. H.Merijn BrandFeb 19, 2015
  9. Michael J GruberFeb 19, 2015
  10. Jeff KingFeb 19, 2015
  11. Michael J GruberFeb 19, 2015
  12. H.Merijn BrandFeb 19, 2015
  13. Michael J GruberMar 3, 2015
  14. H.Merijn BrandMar 3, 2015
  15. Michael J GruberMar 3, 2015
  16. H.Merijn BrandMar 3, 2015
  17. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2015
  18. Michael J GruberFeb 20, 2015
  19. Jeff KingFeb 20, 2015
  20. H.Merijn BrandFeb 20, 2015
  21. H.Merijn BrandFeb 18, 2015
  22. H.Merijn BrandFeb 18, 2015
  23. David AguilarFeb 21, 2015

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