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From: "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com>
To: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: "Mike Hommey" <mh@glandium.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't use cpio in git-clone when not installed
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 08:25:25 +0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <fcaeb9bf0710311825k715900a0sa32a95b87cb146c7@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vejfag40g.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 11/1/07, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> "Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > BTW, you have workaround for git-merge also? It uses cpio to save/restore state.
>
> Why do people want "workaround"?  Is installing cpio such a
> hassle?

It is on Windows because busybox cpio is not really good and busybox
tar is even worse (for cpio emulation). Maybe I should just improve
busybox cpio :-)
-- 
Duy

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-01  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-31 20:05 [PATCH] Don't use cpio in git-clone when not installed Mike Hommey
2007-10-31 20:10 ` Mike Hommey
2007-10-31 22:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2007-10-31 23:55   ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-11-01  0:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-11-01  1:00   ` Jakub Narebski
2007-11-01  1:05   ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-11-01  1:12   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-01  6:31   ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-01 13:06   ` Alexander Skwar
2007-11-01  1:09 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2007-11-01  1:15   ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-01  1:25     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [this message]
2007-11-01  6:45       ` Junio C Hamano
2007-11-01 10:53     ` Mike Hommey
2007-11-01 21:06       ` Junio C Hamano

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