Re: [PATCH] Silence cpio's "N blocks" output when cloning locally

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Johannes Schindelin
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,


 On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

 > El 28/3/2008, a las 14:01, Johannes Schindelin escribió:
 >
 > >On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Bryan Donlan wrote:
 > >
 > > >Pass --quiet to cpio in git-clone to hide the (confusing) "0 blocks"
 > > >message. For compatibility with operating systems which might not
 > > >support GNUisms, the presence of --quiet is probed for by grepping
 > > >cpio's --help output.
 > >
 > >We have a builtin clone which is almost ready for 'next', and I think
 > >that this issue would be resolved there anyway.
 >
 > In any case, I'd rather see the cpio check at configure-time rather than
 > run-time.

 That would have to be done via ./configure, missing out those people who
 do not run ./configure, but just make.

Some distributions don't run configure either, including debian (and
by extension, likely ubuntu). That said, if git-clone's going builtin
anyway, we might as well wait for that :)