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

"Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy" [off-list ref] writes:

It is on Windows because busybox cpio is not really good and busybox
tar is even worse (for cpio emulation). Maybe I should just improve
busybox cpio :-)

Sounds sensible, as it (at least its -p mode of operation) is
one of the programs that is very useful yet not so well known to
people new to UNIX.