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From: "Bryan Donlan" <bdonlan@gmail.com>
To: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: "Wincent Colaiuta" <win@wincent.com>,
	"Bryan Donlan" <bdonlan@fushizen.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence cpio's "N blocks" output when cloning locally
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:59:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e8340490803281159t2ecdcdd6rea502331dcf04457@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.1.00.0803281728530.18259@racer.site>

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Johannes Schindelin
<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
>  On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>  > El 28/3/2008, a las 14:01, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
>  >
>  > >On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Bryan Donlan wrote:
>  > >
>  > > >Pass --quiet to cpio in git-clone to hide the (confusing) "0 blocks"
>  > > >message. For compatibility with operating systems which might not
>  > > >support GNUisms, the presence of --quiet is probed for by grepping
>  > > >cpio's --help output.
>  > >
>  > >We have a builtin clone which is almost ready for 'next', and I think
>  > >that this issue would be resolved there anyway.
>  >
>  > In any case, I'd rather see the cpio check at configure-time rather than
>  > run-time.
>
>  That would have to be done via ./configure, missing out those people who
>  do not run ./configure, but just make.

Some distributions don't run configure either, including debian (and
by extension, likely ubuntu). That said, if git-clone's going builtin
anyway, we might as well wait for that :)

  reply	other threads:[~2008-03-28 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-28  6:19 [PATCH] Silence cpio's "N blocks" output when cloning locally Bryan Donlan
2008-03-28 13:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-28 16:12   ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-03-28 16:29     ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-03-28 18:59       ` Bryan Donlan [this message]
2008-03-31  0:19       ` Junio C Hamano

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