Re: cpio command not found

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:
> > On 2007-10-31 06:51:30 -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't remember this dependence from earlier versions of git. I 
> > > have been running git 1.4.xx on this machine for a while...
> > 
> > When you clone with -l, git uses cpio to hardlink to the original 
> > repository. What has changed is that -l is now used by default when 
> > cloning a repository that's accessed via the file system (as opposed 
> > to over some network protocol).
> 
> Why cpio? What is wrong with ln(1) (every Unix should have one) or
> link(2) ?