Re: git clone questions relating to cpio

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Reece Dunn wrote:

quoted

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'.

I think that may be good enough as workaround, but I do not
think you would get the space saving from hardlinks that way.