From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't use cpio in git-clone when not installed Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 15:29:53 -0700 Message-ID: <7v4pg6hq8u.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <1193861145-20357-1-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Mike Hommey X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Oct 31 23:30:50 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 1InM4v-0005fx-7c for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 23:30:25 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753358AbXJaWaA (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:30:00 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753170AbXJaW37 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:29:59 -0400 Received: from sceptre.pobox.com ([207.106.133.20]:47314 "EHLO sceptre.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753270AbXJaW37 (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:29:59 -0400 Received: from sceptre (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by sceptre.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6B492EF; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:30:19 -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 sceptre.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F5DA90D18; Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:30:17 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <1193861145-20357-1-git-send-email-mh@glandium.org> (Mike Hommey's message of "Wed, 31 Oct 2007 21:05:45 +0100") 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: "type"? That's probably better than using "which", but sounds quite wrong. Why not add Makefile target that the shell scripts depend on to see if necessary tools are available and let the builder know if they are not?