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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: cpio command not found
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:20:47 +0000 (GMT)
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Hi,

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Erik Mouw wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:
> > On 2007-10-31 06:51:30 -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
> > 
> > > I don't remember this dependence from earlier versions of git. I 
> > > have been running git 1.4.xx on this machine for a while...
> > 
> > When you clone with -l, git uses cpio to hardlink to the original 
> > repository. What has changed is that -l is now used by default when 
> > cloning a repository that's accessed via the file system (as opposed 
> > to over some network protocol).
> 
> Why cpio? What is wrong with ln(1) (every Unix should have one) or
> link(2) ?

Patch, please?

Ciao,
Dscho