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) ? Erik -- They're all fools. Don't worry. Darwin may be slow, but he'll eventually get them. -- Matthew Lammers in alt.sysadmin.recovery
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