From: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:42:29 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: Mention 'cpio' dependency in INSTALL
X-Git-Tag: v1.5.3.4~6
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2ff5e18a930ddaf03c77a60e52648e7b8b20fc8d;p=git.git

Mention 'cpio' dependency in INSTALL

Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index 289b046a4..f1eb4049b 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