Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, Reece Dunn wrote: > >> I am running a Linux From Scratch 6.2 system that does not have cpio >> installed on it. This means that I can't clone a local repository >> unless I install cpio. > > You might be interested in the workaround Hannes did in mingw.git; he made > a wrapper script called 'cpio' using 'tar'. I think that may be good enough as workaround, but I do not think you would get the space saving from hardlinks that way. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html