From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2007 15:36:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-clone: use cpio's --quiet flag
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708041636290.14781@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <20070804070308.GA6493@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007, Jeff King wrote:

> Without this flag, cpio prints the number of blocks copied,
> leading to the somewhat confusing git-clone output:
> 
> $ git-clone foo bar
> Initialized empty Git repository in ...
> 0 blocks

According to http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/7990989775/xcu/cpio.html, 
cpio does not know about --quiet.  I think this is another GNUism...

Ciao,
Dscho