Re: [PATCH] Don't use cpio in git-clone when not installed

Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:

quoted

+    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...

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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