From: Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2010 17:40:06 GMT
Subject: Re: Git over SMBFS
Message-ID: <20101007174006.GA31711@fearengine.rdu.redhat.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTik9U_jr6r6BuUcRrk8pjQTacKDY7YbqWnfrCLmD@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:26:15PM -0500, fREW Schmidt wrote:
> A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a
> windows server.  The project is in git, but we are having a lot of
> trouble getting it to work at all.  For example, if he merely does
> (from his machine) "git checkout ." it seemingly times out after 680
> files being checked out.
> 
> Are there any settings we might be able to tweak that might make git
> more tolerable of the latency involved in a network based checkout?
> 

Sounds to me like the best way would be to make a local copy with

git clone /path/to/cifs/mounted/project

And then do your work on the local hard disk. Later, you can git-push
back in to the cifs folder.

--CJD