On Wednesday, October 31, 2007 at 14:30:39 (+0100) Karl Hasselström writes: >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). > >To work around this, specify the repository location with file://, and >git won't try to hardlink (and hence won't try to use cpio). Hmm, thanks for the workaround, but I don't altogether like leaving things like this. If the system does not have cpio, I think the build of git should complain and fail, or it should activate code that treats any repository accessed over the file system as it would file://. No sense in leaving this surprise to the user so late in the cycle. Bill - 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
