From: Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:12:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence cpio's "N blocks" output when cloning locally
Message-ID: <2145F4A8-7C6E-4AE9-A531-026DC65417BE@wincent.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803281400330.18259@racer.site>

El 28/3/2008, a las 14:01, Johannes Schindelin escribió:

> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Bryan Donlan wrote:
>
>> Pass --quiet to cpio in git-clone to hide the (confusing) "0 blocks"
>> message. For compatibility with operating systems which might not
>> support GNUisms, the presence of --quiet is probed for by grepping
>> cpio's --help output.
>
> We have a builtin clone which is almost ready for 'next', and I  
> think that
> this issue would be resolved there anyway.

In any case, I'd rather see the cpio check at configure-time rather  
than run-time.

Cheers,
Wincent