From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 06:23:38 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone questions relating to cpio
Message-ID: <7vy7emm3v9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4701E10C.7050405@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> 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.

Yeah, that's the reason it is not appropriate than cpio, even if
we forget about Windows.