{"thread":{"id":"25363","subject":"Git over SMBFS","startedAt":"2010-10-06T02:26:15Z","lastAt":"2010-10-07T22:49:03Z","messageCount":5,"participants":["fREW Schmidt","Kai Blin","Casey Dahlin"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"152740","messageId":"AANLkTik9U_jr6r6BuUcRrk8pjQTacKDY7YbqWnfrCLmD@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"25363","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Git over SMBFS","fromName":"fREW Schmidt","fromEmail":"frioux@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-10-06T02:26:15Z","receivedAt":"2010-10-06T02:26:15Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"frioux@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/639ef3cc221c7f2c225568697bc9d42be4d4e3bada6b4a3b9c32685548f3c105?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a\nwindows server.  The project is in git, but we are having a lot of\ntrouble getting it to work at all.  For example, if he merely does\n(from his machine) \"git checkout .\" it seemingly times out after 680\nfiles being checked out.\n\nAre there any settings we might be able to tweak that might make git\nmore tolerable of the latency involved in a network based checkout?\n\n--\nfREW Schmidt\nhttp://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com\n"},{"id":"152743","messageId":"4CAC0AEA.6050502@samba.org","threadId":"25363","inReplyTo":"AANLkTik9U_jr6r6BuUcRrk8pjQTacKDY7YbqWnfrCLmD@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Git over SMBFS","fromName":"Kai Blin","fromEmail":"kai@samba.org","sentAt":"2010-10-06T05:36:42Z","receivedAt":"2010-10-06T05:36:42Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"kai@samba.org","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/bc7698f10d926406cee9c7bad46d2b345249777dadd9ece4501f6f2384a03e52?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----\nHash: SHA1\n\nOn 2010-10-06 04:26, fREW Schmidt wrote:\n> A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a\n> windows server.\n\nPlease tell me you're not really using smbfs as the filesystem but\nyou're actually using the cifs kernel module. smbfs has been deprecated\nyears ago and is unlikely to work correctly against servers more recent\nthan Win NT 4.0.\n\nCheers,\nKai\n\n- -- \nKai Blin\nWorldforge developer http://www.worldforge.org/\nWine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin\nSamba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/\n-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----\nVersion: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux)\nComment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/\n\niEYEARECAAYFAkysCuYACgkQEKXX/bF2FpSujgCfU6bRiu/m7OQe68ju5cl7Wl1H\n2xoAn1roY9WnFQ1MN3hpFjna/iMfwWob\n=xGqM\n-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----\n"},{"id":"152762","messageId":"AANLkTi=Mee1zUK1vX3GTVYfGaVH2dNOr2Phpu=NdrLTm@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"25363","inReplyTo":"4CAC0AEA.6050502@samba.org","subject":"Re: Git over SMBFS","fromName":"fREW Schmidt","fromEmail":"frioux@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-10-06T14:12:18Z","receivedAt":"2010-10-06T14:12:18Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"frioux@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/639ef3cc221c7f2c225568697bc9d42be4d4e3bada6b4a3b9c32685548f3c105?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"> > A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a\n> > windows server.\n>\n> Please tell me you're not really using smbfs as the filesystem but\n> you're actually using the cifs kernel module. smbfs has been deprecated\n> years ago and is unlikely to work correctly against servers more recent\n> than Win NT 4.0.\n\nYeah, sorry, it *is* cifs.\n--\nfREW Schmidt\nhttp://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com\n"},{"id":"152885","messageId":"20101007174006.GA31711@fearengine.rdu.redhat.com","threadId":"25363","inReplyTo":"AANLkTik9U_jr6r6BuUcRrk8pjQTacKDY7YbqWnfrCLmD@mail.gmail.com","subject":"Re: Git over SMBFS","fromName":"Casey Dahlin","fromEmail":"cdahlin@redhat.com","sentAt":"2010-10-07T17:40:06Z","receivedAt":"2010-10-07T17:40:06Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"cdahlin@redhat.com","avatar":null},"body":"On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:26:15PM -0500, fREW Schmidt wrote:\n> A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a\n> windows server.  The project is in git, but we are having a lot of\n> trouble getting it to work at all.  For example, if he merely does\n> (from his machine) \"git checkout .\" it seemingly times out after 680\n> files being checked out.\n> \n> Are there any settings we might be able to tweak that might make git\n> more tolerable of the latency involved in a network based checkout?\n> \n\nSounds to me like the best way would be to make a local copy with\n\ngit clone /path/to/cifs/mounted/project\n\nAnd then do your work on the local hard disk. Later, you can git-push\nback in to the cifs folder.\n\n--CJD\n"},{"id":"152935","messageId":"AANLkTi=Va+rsiewbjHdRzMxKj96gFrvxT4=muMeP9=zq@mail.gmail.com","threadId":"25363","inReplyTo":"20101007174006.GA31711@fearengine.rdu.redhat.com","subject":"Re: Git over SMBFS","fromName":"fREW Schmidt","fromEmail":"frioux@gmail.com","sentAt":"2010-10-07T22:49:03Z","receivedAt":"2010-10-07T22:49:03Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"frioux@gmail.com","avatar":"https://gravatar.com/avatar/639ef3cc221c7f2c225568697bc9d42be4d4e3bada6b4a3b9c32685548f3c105?d=mp&s=160"},"body":"On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@redhat.com> wrote:\n>\n> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:26:15PM -0500, fREW Schmidt wrote:\n> > A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a\n> > windows server.  The project is in git, but we are having a lot of\n> > trouble getting it to work at all.  For example, if he merely does\n> > (from his machine) \"git checkout .\" it seemingly times out after 680\n> > files being checked out.\n> >\n> > Are there any settings we might be able to tweak that might make git\n> > more tolerable of the latency involved in a network based checkout?\n> >\n>\n> Sounds to me like the best way would be to make a local copy with\n>\n> git clone /path/to/cifs/mounted/project\n>\n> And then do your work on the local hard disk. Later, you can git-push\n> back in to the cifs folder.\n\nThat's actually what we've been doing.  I was just curious if there\nwere another way.\n\n\n--\nfREW Schmidt\nhttp://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com\n"}]}