Re: [PATCH] Don't use cpio in git-clone when not installed

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Nov 1, 2007, 00:46 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710311742170.3342@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <1193861145-20357-1-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org>

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:

> +	if type cpio > /dev/null 2>&1; then
> +		local=yes
> +	fi

Isn't "type" a bashism?

Maybe just do

	if echo . | cpio -o > /dev/null 2>&1; then

instead? Maybe even doing this at install time to avoid the overhead of executing another process..

		Linus