Re: cpio command not found

On 11/1/07, Bill Lear [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 14:30:39 (+0100) Karl Hasselström writes:

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On 2007-10-31 06:51:30 -0600, Bill Lear wrote:

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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).

To work around this, specify the repository location with file://, and
git won't try to hardlink (and hence won't try to use cpio).

Hmm, thanks for the workaround, but I don't altogether like leaving
things like this.

If the system does not have cpio, I think the build of git should
complain and fail, or it should activate code that treats any
repository accessed over the file system as it would file://.

Something like this could be done at run-time instead. You might
install cpio, but shouldn't require a rebuild of git just to use it.


Dave.