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Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:

> On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Reece Dunn wrote:
>
>> I am running a Linux From Scratch 6.2 system that does not have cpio
>> installed on it. This means that I can't clone a local repository
>> unless I install cpio.
>
> You might be interested in the workaround Hannes did in mingw.git; he made 
> a wrapper script called 'cpio' using 'tar'.

I think that may be good enough as workaround, but I do not
think you would get the space saving from hardlinks that way.