Re: cpio command not found

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 03:06:55PM +0100, Erik Mouw wrote:

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:30:39PM +0100, Karl Hasselstr?m wrote:

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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).

Why cpio? What is wrong with ln(1) (every Unix should have one) or
link(2) ?

Since git-clone is not yet a builtin, and is actually a shell script, it
makes more sense to use cpio than ln.

Mike