From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik Mouw Subject: Re: cpio command not found Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:06:55 +0100 Organization: Eric Conspiracy Secret Labs Message-ID: <20071031140655.GA8802@gateway.home> References: <18216.31314.990545.518458@lisa.zopyra.com> <20071031133039.GA29065@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9" Cc: Bill Lear , git@vger.kernel.org To: Karl Hasselstr?m X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 31 15:17:20 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1InENY-00012M-5J for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:17:08 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754625AbXJaOQy (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:16:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755232AbXJaOQy (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:16:54 -0400 Received: from smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl ([194.109.24.26]:2512 "EHLO smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753743AbXJaOQx (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:16:53 -0400 X-Greylist: delayed 579 seconds by postgrey-1.27 at vger.kernel.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:16:53 EDT Received: from gateway.home (a82-92-155-199.adsl.xs4all.nl [82.92.155.199]) by smtp-vbr6.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l9VE6uIq016535; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:07:05 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mouw@nl.linux.org) Received: from erik by gateway.home with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1InEDf-000491-00; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:06:55 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071031133039.GA29065@diana.vm.bytemark.co.uk> X-Eric-Conspiracy: There is no conspiracy! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote: > On 2007-10-31 06:51:30 -0600, Bill Lear wrote: >=20 > > I don't remember this dependence from earlier versions of git. I > > have been running git 1.4.xx on this machine for a while... >=20 > When you clone with -l, git uses cpio to hardlink to the original > repository. What has changed is that -l is now used by default when > cloning a repository that's accessed via the file system (as opposed > to over some network protocol). Why cpio? What is wrong with ln(1) (every Unix should have one) or link(2) ? Erik --=20 They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHKIv//PlVHJtIto0RAit8AJ9w65EvHUzpVpsAa9rwpH8PP4oxGQCcCkwA d/WVxtyyrpn2TiC3j/+rV9s= =OQTH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --PEIAKu/WMn1b1Hv9--