Re: git clone questions relating to cpio

Johannes Sixt [off-list ref] writes:

FWIW, I'm thinking about changing the cpio -p (passthrough) part to use
'cp -l --parents --target-directory=...' instead of tar; this gives us
hard links, even on NTFS. But it needs GNU's cp, of course.

Yeah, that's the reason it is not appropriate than cpio, even if
we forget about Windows.