Hi, On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Erik Mouw wrote: > 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) ? Patch, please? Ciao, Dscho - 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