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List:       git
Subject:    Re: cpio command not found
From:       Mike Hommey <mh () glandium ! org>
Date:       2007-10-31 19:48:21
Message-ID: 20071031194821.GA16215 () glandium ! org
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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:
> > On 2007-10-31 06:51:30 -0600, Bill Lear wrote:
> > 
> > > 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
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