Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
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On Tuesday 02 October 2007, Reece Dunn wrote:
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
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1.5.3.3.1144.gf10f2
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