Re: git bash

From: Dirk Süsserott <newsletter@dirk.my1.cc>
Date: Jul 18, 2011, 18:51 UTC
Message-ID: <4E2480BD.9000403@dirk.my1.cc>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1107150114240.2642@bonsai2>

Hi Johannes,

Am 15.07.2011 01:15 schrieb Johannes Schindelin:

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> Hi Dirk,
> 
> On Fri, 17 Jun 2011, Dirk Süsserott wrote:
> 
>> I noticed the following: When the ext. HD is attached/mounted *before* I 
>> start the bash, then it works. But if I have a running bash and then 
>> mount the drive, I cannot cd to it. "No such path" or sth. It seems, 
>> that bash builds a list of available drives only at startup. Might that 
>> be your problem? If so, then close all bashs and re-open them after 
>> mounting the devices.
> 
> This behavior is discussed here:
> 
> http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/141867
> 
> (look for "NO_FSTAB_THREAD")
> 
> Ciao,
> Johannes

thank you for the pointer. That's what I've observed. To be honest, I'm one of the lazy guys and didn't really understand the impact of setting NO_FSTAB_THREAD at first glance. As I understood, setting it means "mounting drives afterwards works, but slows things down" and not setting it means the opposite. Meanwhile I'm familiar with re-starting my git-bash in case (that's not too bad for me). I almost never run git commands from cmd.exe because cmd.exe is rubbish.

But, again, thanx for the help; now I know how to fine-tune the behaviour if I wish.

Cheers, Dirk