Re: git: a1bff97300ab - main - release: Don't reuse disc1/bootonly directories

From: Colin Percival <cperciva_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 15:58:09 UTC 
On 4/9/24 22:18, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> On 10 Apr 2024, at 04:29, Colin Percival <cperciva@FreeBSD.org> wrote:
>> +disc1-disc1 disc1-memstick: disc1
>> + mkdir ${.TARGET}
>> + tar -cf- -C disc1 . | tar -xf- -C ${.TARGET}
> 
> What’s wrong with cp -a?

A couple decades of muscle memory using tar -c | tar -x.  I would have
used cp -Rl, but that breaks with noschg files.

> Besides, shouldn’t this use -p if using tar?

That's the default if we're running as root.  And if we're not running
as root then we get permissions/flags/etc from the METALOG, I believe?

> And -f- is the same as nothing.

When did that change?  I thought the default was to use the tape device.

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Colin Percival
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