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Re: [PATCH] Silence cpio's "N blocks" output when cloning locally

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Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 28, 2008, 16:29 UTC
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<alpine.LSU.1.00.0803281728530.18259@racer.site>
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Hi,
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
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> El 28/3/2008, a las 14:01, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
> 
> >On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Bryan Donlan wrote:
> >
> > >Pass --quiet to cpio in git-clone to hide the (confusing) "0 blocks" 
> > >message. For compatibility with operating systems which might not 
> > >support GNUisms, the presence of --quiet is probed for by grepping 
> > >cpio's --help output.
> >
> >We have a builtin clone which is almost ready for 'next', and I think 
> >that this issue would be resolved there anyway.
> 
> In any case, I'd rather see the cpio check at configure-time rather than 
> run-time.

That would have to be done via ./configure, missing out those people who do not run ./configure, but just make.

Ciao, Dscho

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  1. Silence cpio's "N blocks" output when cloning locallyBryan Donlan, Mar 28, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinMar 28, 2008
  3. Wincent ColaiutaMar 28, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 28, 2008
  5. Bryan DonlanMar 28, 2008
  6. Junio C HamanoMar 31, 2008

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