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Re: git clone questions relating to cpio

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Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date
Oct 2, 2007, 06:11 UTC
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Junio C Hamano schrieb:
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> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Reece Dunn wrote:
>>
>>> I am running a Linux From Scratch 6.2 system that does not have cpio
>>> installed on it. This means that I can't clone a local repository
>>> unless I install cpio.
>> You might be interested in the workaround Hannes did in mingw.git; he made 
>> a wrapper script called 'cpio' using 'tar'.
> 
> I think that may be good enough as workaround, but I do not
> think you would get the space saving from hardlinks that way.

FWIW, I'm thinking about changing the cpio -p (passthrough) part to use 'cp -l --parents --target-directory=...' instead of tar; this gives us hard links, even on NTFS. But it needs GNU's cp, of course.

-- Hannes
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Message 13 of 14 in “git clone questions relating to cpio”
  1. Reece DunnOct 1, 2007
  2. Johan HerlandOct 1, 2007
  3. Reece DunnOct 2, 2007
  4. Mention 'cpio' dependency in INSTALLJohan Herland, Oct 2, 2007
  5. Junio C HamanoOct 3, 2007
  6. Chris LarsonOct 3, 2007
  7. Miklos VajnaOct 3, 2007
  8. INSTALL: Update section on external dependenciesJohan Herland, Oct 3, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinOct 3, 2007
  10. Shawn O. PearceOct 3, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinOct 1, 2007
  12. Junio C HamanoOct 1, 2007
  13. Johannes SixtOct 2, 2007
  14. Junio C HamanoOct 2, 2007

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