From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 18:27:04 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clone: use cpio's --quiet flag
Message-ID: <7vps23gnpj.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20070804175240.GB17113@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 10:48:29AM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> I was hoping that we can say that the output is analogous to the
>> native transport reporting "Conting objects: XXXX" and stuff...
>
> It always says "0 blocks" for me, which looks a bit like an error (but
> the clone seems to work fine).

Try cloning across filesystem boundaries so that you do not get
a hardlink -- you will get block count of the copy ;-)