From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
Reece Dunn <msclrhd@googlemail.com>, Git <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: git clone questions relating to cpio
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 23:23:38 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vy7emm3v9.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4701E10C.7050405@viscovery.net> (Johannes Sixt's message of "Tue, 02 Oct 2007 08:11:24 +0200")
Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:
> FWIW, I'm thinking about changing the cpio -p (passthrough) part to use
> 'cp -l --parents --target-directory=...' instead of tar; this gives us
> hard links, even on NTFS. But it needs GNU's cp, of course.
Yeah, that's the reason it is not appropriate than cpio, even if
we forget about Windows.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-10-02 6:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-01 19:28 git clone questions relating to cpio Reece Dunn
2007-10-01 21:42 ` Johan Herland
2007-10-02 21:09 ` Reece Dunn
2007-10-02 23:42 ` [PATCH] Mention 'cpio' dependency in INSTALL Johan Herland
2007-10-03 0:14 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-03 6:09 ` Chris Larson
2007-10-03 7:40 ` Miklos Vajna
2007-10-03 8:27 ` [PATCH v2] INSTALL: Update section on external dependencies Johan Herland
2007-10-03 15:56 ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-03 16:05 ` Shawn O. Pearce
2007-10-01 23:23 ` git clone questions relating to cpio Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-01 23:32 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-02 6:11 ` Johannes Sixt
2007-10-02 6:23 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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