From: Paul Dickson <paul@permanentmail.com>
To: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Cc: pasky@ucw.cz, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add archive-tree, a cpio archive creator
Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:30:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050425153011.34c93b38.paul@permanentmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050424014346.GA23083@lsrfire.ath.cx>
On Sun, 24 Apr 2005 03:43:46 +0200, Rene Scharfe wrote:
> This patch adds archive-tree, a program to create a cpio archive of all
> files referenced by a given tree or commit object. Why cpio and not
> e.g., tar? The cpio format I chose (GNU cpio calls it "odc") is dead
> simple compared to any tar variant. I was simply being lazy. :-P
Use the "newc" format. The "odc" will generate a lot of errors on a
large filesystem (which I discovered this past weekend).
-Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-25 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-24 1:43 [PATCH] Add archive-tree, a cpio archive creator Rene Scharfe
2005-04-25 22:30 ` Paul Dickson [this message]
2005-04-26 14:42 ` Rene Scharfe
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