Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive

From: Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com>
Date: Oct 19, 2013, 11:55 UTC
Message-ID: <20131019115545.GU13967@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>
In-Reply-To: <CADgy817rrg0s9icaT_QdAWGiRsb6T5eg4LJAc+Q7CdM=Csexkw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 02:45:46PM +0300, Ain Valtin wrote:

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> On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> wrote:
> >
> > Git has a bad history with mapped drives in windows. It's also usually a
> > bad idea to use git over the network (and most mapped drives are over
> > the network and not local between virt. machines).
> >
> > I would advise not to use this setup since for the past two years that
> > git has sometime worked and sometimes not with this setup. (It's not
> > just seperate git dir, a git dir at all over a smb share have been
> > problematic).
> 
> That's a shame :(
> As I wrote I want to use git in a virtual machine and as a extra
> precaution it would be nice to have the repo outside of the VM, on the
> host drive - should the VM not to start up for whatever reason I
> wouldn't lose my repo with it...
> 
> 
> ain

A better way (if you can afford it) is to have a repo on the virtual machine and push to a repo on your hostmachine (so that you've two repos). However your solution "should" work but I personally have had some problems with that area.

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