{"thread":{"id":"20098","subject":"advisability of CIFS/SMBFS","startedAt":"2009-07-13T10:27:10Z","lastAt":"2009-07-13T16:44:05Z","messageCount":2,"participants":["Rustom Mody","Sitaram Chamarty"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"117896","messageId":"f46c52560907130327n1fedcd9ch34a2a73a03b9af5c@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"20098","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"advisability of CIFS/SMBFS","fromName":"Rustom Mody","fromEmail":"rustompmody@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-07-13T10:27:10Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-13T10:27:10Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"rustompmody@gmail.com","avatar":null},"body":"I see a mention of CIFS/SMBFS on the faq and some mails but no clear\nposition on whether its ok or not.\n\nMy question is in the following context:\n\n- Our team (5-6 programmers) use windows and linux for development\n- We are on a windows 'network neighborhood' type system (I guess this is CIFS?)\n- there is a linux box for an (internal) server and some dual boots\n\nIf I can make a repo smbmounted on one of the linux partitions then we\ncan push/pull from each others' repos almost like between local repos\nie without ssh etc.  Of course this assumes the directories are made\nsuitably shareable by the team members.\n\nOf course one could say: Whats the point of using the best distributed\nvcs without using the distributed features.\n\nWell our reasons for git are:\n- efficient branching and sophisticated merge, branch surgery with\nrebase, cherry-pick\n- mailing patches (sometimes people work from home)\n- other goodies like interactive add, stash etc\n\nSo is smbmounting git repos ok or is plain ol' ssh safer/preferable?\n"},{"id":"117911","messageId":"2e24e5b90907130944i41ae0107va016bf44da2d713e@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"20098","inReplyTo":"f46c52560907130327n1fedcd9ch34a2a73a03b9af5c@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: advisability of CIFS/SMBFS","fromName":"Sitaram Chamarty","fromEmail":"sitaramc@gmail.com","sentAt":"2009-07-13T16:44:05Z","receivedAt":"2009-07-13T16:44:05Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"sitaramc@gmail.com","avatar":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/43316?v=4"},"body":"On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Rustom Mody<rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:\n> I see a mention of CIFS/SMBFS on the faq and some mails but no clear\n> position on whether its ok or not.\n\nhttp://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/122670 and\nother mails in that thread may help.\n\nSitaram\n"}]}