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Re: Can git be tweaked to work cross-platform, on FAT32?

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Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>
Date
Dec 17, 2006, 10:21 UTC
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On 12/17/06, Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
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> > 3. ad Johannes: This does sound quite simple and straightforward. If I
> >    got it right, it would involve having one repository on a, say,
> >    ext2 partition to work with under Linux, and one on a FAT32
> >    partition to work with under Windows, and syncing the two after
> >    booting (fetching from FAT32) and before shutting down (pushing to
> >    FAT32) Linux.
>
> This is how I'd do it.

And I concur - I had only introduced Samba to the conversation because I thought you were talking about several computers. If you are dual-booting on one machine, I'd do as above.

Note that under windows you can use ext2 -- haven't used it, and don't know how cygwin behaves with it, but it may be *just* what you need to avoid case sensitivity problems and have symlink support.

    http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd
    http://www.fs-driver.org/
cheers,
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Message 6 of 15 in “Can git be tweaked to work cross-platform, on FAT32?”
  1. Florian v. SavignyDec 13, 2006
  2. Johannes SchindelinDec 13, 2006
  3. Martin LanghoffDec 14, 2006
  4. Florian v. SavignyDec 16, 2006
  5. Johannes SchindelinDec 16, 2006
  6. Martin LanghoffDec 17, 2006
  7. Stefano SpinucciDec 17, 2006
  8. Johannes SchindelinDec 17, 2006
  9. Juergen RuehleDec 17, 2006
  10. Johannes SchindelinDec 17, 2006
  11. Stefano SpinucciDec 18, 2006
  12. Johannes SchindelinDec 18, 2006
  13. Juergen RuehleDec 18, 2006
  14. Dan NicholsonDec 19, 2006
  15. David LangDec 19, 2006

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