From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Mention 'cpio' dependency in INSTALL Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:14:25 -0700 Message-ID: <7v1wcdjbq6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <3f4fd2640710011228w61ce34b5ve47ea529eed384fd@mail.gmail.com> <200710012342.37352.johan@herland.net> <3f4fd2640710021409q104a4204r522391912d5b5c8c@mail.gmail.com> <200710030142.30062.johan@herland.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Reece Dunn To: Johan Herland X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 03 02:14:43 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 1Icrsu-0005aI-W4 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:14:41 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752374AbXJCAOd (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:14:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752628AbXJCAOc (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:14:32 -0400 Received: from rune.pobox.com ([208.210.124.79]:59704 "EHLO rune.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752252AbXJCAOc (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:14:32 -0400 Received: from rune (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rune.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CF013F7FA; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:14:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by rune.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC06813F7CD; Tue, 2 Oct 2007 20:14:49 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200710030142.30062.johan@herland.net> (Johan Herland's message of "Wed, 03 Oct 2007 01:42:29 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johan Herland writes: > reveals that cpio is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation, > nor in the requirements section of the INSTALL file. Thanks. We use many other tools that are typically found in bog-standard UNIX environments, like sed, echo, cat, sort, etc. and we do not list them in the INSTALL file (nor we would want to). cpio used to be in the "bog standard" category but perhaps Linux distros do not install it by default, so it is worth listing it there. Are there other commands we rely on that may not be universally installed? I myself consider "cut" to be in the category, but other than that I do not think of anything offhand.