Re: Interested in helping open source friends on HP-UX?
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Feb 18, 2015, 18:47 UTC
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 06:46:04PM +0100, Michael J Gruber wrote: > >> Well, how can we help if we don't even know the limitations of that >> platform? > > I'm not sure, but I think the original call for help may have been "I > will give you shell access to these boxes if you want to play around".
Yeah, that probably was my bad---I didn't make it clear enough that the request for volunteer from H.Merijn was exactly that.
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> It seems like we could use > > (cd src && tar cf - .) | (cd dst && tar xf -) > > here as a more portable alternative. I don't think we can rely on rsync > being everywhere.
Thanks; I wasn't even aware that we used rsync in our tests. We certainly do not want to rely on it.
Why not "cp -r src dst", though?