Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Reece Dunn wrote: > Do you know if cpio is listed anywhere in required dependencies? Doing the following in the git repo: $ grep -r cpio * git-clone.sh: find objects -depth -print | cpio -pumd$l "$GIT_DIR/" || exit 1 git-merge.sh: cpio -0 -o >"$GIT_DIR/MERGE_SAVE" git-merge.sh: cpio -iuv <"$GIT_DIR/MERGE_SAVE" reveals that cpio is not mentioned anywhere in the documentation, nor in the requirements section of the INSTALL file. Have fun! ...Johan INSTALL | 3 +++ 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL index 289b046..f1eb404 100644 --- a/INSTALL +++ b/INSTALL @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ Issues of note: - "perl" and POSIX-compliant shells are needed to use most of the barebone Porcelainish scripts. + - "cpio" is used by git-merge for saving and restoring the index, + and by git-clone when doing a local (possibly hardlinked) clone. + - Some platform specific issues are dealt with Makefile rules, but depending on your specific installation, you may not have all the libraries/tools needed, or you may have -- 1.5.3.3.1144.gf10f2 - 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
