From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Johannes Schindelin Subject: Re: git clone questions relating to cpio Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 00:23:57 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: References: <3f4fd2640710011228w61ce34b5ve47ea529eed384fd@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Git To: Reece Dunn X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Oct 02 01:25:23 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 1IcUde-0000hr-47 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 02 Oct 2007 01:25:22 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751790AbXJAXZO (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:25:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751784AbXJAXZO (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:25:14 -0400 Received: from mail.gmx.net ([213.165.64.20]:38461 "HELO mail.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1751787AbXJAXZN (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Oct 2007 19:25:13 -0400 Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 01 Oct 2007 23:25:10 -0000 Received: from wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de (EHLO openvpn-client) [132.187.25.13] by mail.gmx.net (mp019) with SMTP; 02 Oct 2007 01:25:10 +0200 X-Authenticated: #1490710 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX1/sB3QrLRzsW0TZTXFhveW0N4nhZaSsSjTUXljbeF TxwJT+x0S5Rp5E X-X-Sender: gene099@racer.site In-Reply-To: <3f4fd2640710011228w61ce34b5ve47ea529eed384fd@mail.gmail.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi, 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'. Ciao, Dscho