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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>,
	"H.Merijn Brand" <h.m.brand@xs4all.nl>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Interested in helping open source friends on HP-UX?
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2015 10:47:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqpp972h1n.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150218182547.GA6346@peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Wed, 18 Feb 2015 13:25:47 -0500")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> 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.

> 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?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-18 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-12-11  7:46 Interested in helping open source friends on HP-UX? Junio C Hamano
2015-02-18 16:00 ` H.Merijn Brand
2015-02-18 17:46   ` Michael J Gruber
2015-02-18 18:25     ` Jeff King
2015-02-18 18:47       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2015-02-18 18:57         ` Jeff King
2015-02-19 10:33           ` Michael J Gruber
2015-02-19 11:14             ` H.Merijn Brand
2015-02-19 11:20               ` Michael J Gruber
2015-02-19 12:54                 ` Jeff King
2015-02-19 13:21                   ` Michael J Gruber
2015-02-19 18:56                     ` H.Merijn Brand
2015-03-03 14:55                       ` Michael J Gruber
2015-03-03 15:30                         ` H.Merijn Brand
2015-03-03 16:05                           ` Michael J Gruber
2015-03-03 22:25                             ` H.Merijn Brand
2015-02-20  1:48                     ` Jeff King
2015-02-20 10:36                       ` Michael J Gruber
2015-02-20 10:49                         ` Jeff King
2015-02-20 11:24                           ` H.Merijn Brand
2015-02-18 19:22         ` H.Merijn Brand
2015-02-18 19:20     ` H.Merijn Brand
2015-02-21 23:31   ` David Aguilar

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