From: Junio C Hamano Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:32:48 GMT Subject: Re: git clone questions relating to cpio Message-ID: <7vwsu6pg0v.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Johannes Schindelin 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.