On 11/1/07, Bill Lear <rael@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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://. Something like this could be done at run-time instead. You might install cpio, but shouldn't require a rebuild of git just to use it. Dave. - 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
