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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