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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Silence cpio's "N blocks" output when cloning locally
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 17:19:04 -0700
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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:
>
>> El 28/3/2008, a las 14:01, Johannes Schindelin escribi=C3=B3:
>>=20
>> >On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Bryan Donlan wrote:
>> >
>> > >Pass --quiet to cpio in git-clone to hide the (confusing) "0 bloc=
ks"=20
>> > >message. For compatibility with operating systems which might not=
=20
>> > >support GNUisms, the presence of --quiet is probed for by greppin=
g=20
>> > >cpio's --help output.
>> >
>> >We have a builtin clone which is almost ready for 'next', and I thi=
nk=20
>> >that this issue would be resolved there anyway.
>>=20
>> In any case, I'd rather see the cpio check at configure-time rather =
than=20
>> run-time.
>
> That would have to be done via ./configure, missing out those people =
who=20
> do not run ./configure, but just make.

Runtime is just fine for this case.  Unlike other commands, clone is no=
t
something you run all the time.  Anything more elaborate is just
overengineered.