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

Johannes Schindelin [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

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El 28/3/2008, a las 14:01, Johannes Schindelin escribió:

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On Fri, 28 Mar 2008, Bryan Donlan wrote:

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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.

Runtime is just fine for this case.  Unlike other commands, clone is not
something you run all the time.  Anything more elaborate is just
overengineered.