From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:23:57 GMT
Subject: Re: git clone questions relating to cpio
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0710020022470.28395@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <3f4fd2640710011228w61ce34b5ve47ea529eed384fd@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

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'.

Ciao,
Dscho