From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:11:24 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone questions relating to cpio
Message-ID: <4701E10C.7050405@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsu6pg0v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> 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