From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Paul Dickson Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add archive-tree, a cpio archive creator Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:30:11 -0700 Message-ID: <20050425153011.34c93b38.paul@permanentmail.com> References: <20050424014346.GA23083@lsrfire.ath.cx> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: pasky@ucw.cz, git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Apr 26 00:26:35 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DQC2D-0001y5-OC for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 00:26:34 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261260AbVDYWb2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:31:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261266AbVDYWbY (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:31:24 -0400 Received: from orb.pobox.com ([207.8.226.5]:50852 "EHLO orb.pobox.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261260AbVDYWaX (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:30:23 -0400 Received: from orb (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orb.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E93D611; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:30:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from red.pwd.internal (ip68-230-78-84.ph.ph.cox.net [68.230.78.84]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by orb.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C98B87; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 18:30:14 -0400 (EDT) Received: from violet.pwd.internal (violet [192.168.1.4]) by red.pwd.internal (8.12.8/8.12.8) with SMTP id j3PMUBT3031820; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 15:30:16 -0700 To: Rene Scharfe In-Reply-To: <20050424014346.GA23083@lsrfire.ath.cx> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.9.7 (GTK+ 2.4.14; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org 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