From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 01:25:25 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't use cpio in git-clone when not installed
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0710311825k715900a0sa32a95b87cb146c7@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vejfag40g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 11/1/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > BTW, you have workaround for git-merge also? It uses cpio to save/restore state.
>
> Why do people want "workaround"?  Is installing cpio such a
> hassle?

It is on Windows because busybox cpio is not really good and busybox
tar is even worse (for cpio emulation). Maybe I should just improve
busybox cpio :-)
-- 
Duy