Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't use cpio in git-clone when not installed

From: Mike Hommey <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 07:31:31 +0100

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 05:46:40PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > +	if type cpio > /dev/null 2>&1; then
> > +		local=yes
> > +	fi
> 
> Isn't "type" a bashism?

I think it's POSIX, and since I found the same construct in
git-mergetool.sh, I thought it would be okay for git.

Mike