Re: Copying Git repository from Linux to Windows.
- From
Andreas Ericsson <ae@op5.se>
- Date
- Jun 15, 2011, 09:47 UTC
- Message-ID
- <4DF87FB6.2080503@op5.se>
- In-Reply-To
- <4DF87B42.1020004@st.com>
On 06/15/2011 11:28 AM, viresh kumar wrote:
Show 22 quoted lines
> Hello, > > I wanted to copy my complete Linux GIT repo from Linux PC to Windows. I also wanted everything > related to remote branches too, so need to copy and clone and fetch wouldn't work. > > I don't have windows on same network, so i need to copy to memory stick and then to Windows PC. > > After completing copy operation on mem stick, i found something strange. > - git branch shows correct results and is exactly same of state at Linux machine. > - git log is also fine. > - git status, shows me a lot of files are modified, which is not present in Linux. > - git reset --hard also doesn't work and fails with following error. > > > $ git reset --hard HEAD > error: unable to create symlink arch/microblaze/boot/dts/system.dts (Operation not permitted) > Checking out files: 100% (36696/36696), done. > fatal: Could not reset index file to revision 'HEAD'. > > > Any help about this issue would be very helpful. >
The Linux kernel repository isn't very good to work with on Windows machines, or anywhere where the filesystem is either case-insensitive or case-agnostic.
One reason is that it contains symlink. The other is that there are files sharing the same name and only differ in case.
I suppose the main thought behind it is that Linux kernel hackers almost exclusively use Linux (which has sane filesystems) to do their work, so it hasn't been rectified in the 5 or so years it has been a known (non-)problem.
-- Andreas Ericsson andreas.ericsson@op5.se OP5 AB www.op5.se Tel: +46 8-230225 Fax: +46 8-230231 Considering the successes of the wars on alcohol, poverty, drugs and terror, I think we should give some serious thought to declaring war on peace.