From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't use cpio in git-clone when not installed
Date: Thu, 01 Nov 2007 02:00:48 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fgb8b6$hqo$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: alpine.LFD.0.999.0710311742170.3342@woody.linux-foundation.org
Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
>> + if type cpio > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>> + local=yes
>> + fi
>
> Isn't "type" a bashism?
>
> Maybe just do
>
> if echo . | cpio -o > /dev/null 2>&1; then
>
> instead? Maybe even doing this at install time to avoid the overhead of
> executing another process..
Or perhaps trap / check actual execution of cpio in git-clone, and
fallback to ln -s / link if it fails...
--
Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 0:58 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 [this message]
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
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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