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

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mar 31, 2008, 00:19 UTC
Message-ID: <7v1w5rwxs7.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803281728530.18259@racer.site>

Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

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> 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.

Runtime is just fine for this case. Unlike other commands, clone is not something you run all the time. Anything more elaborate is just overengineered.