Re: [PATCH] Silence cpio's "N blocks" output when cloning locally

From: Bryan Donlan <bdonlan@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 28, 2008, 18:59 UTC
Message-ID: <3e8340490803281159t2ecdcdd6rea502331dcf04457@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803281728530.18259@racer.site>

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:

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> Hi,
>
>
>  On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>  > 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.
>
>  That would have to be done via ./configure, missing out those people who
>  do not run ./configure, but just make.

Some distributions don't run configure either, including debian (and by extension, likely ubuntu). That said, if git-clone's going builtin anyway, we might as well wait for that :)