From: Johannes Sixt Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 05:36:14 GMT Subject: Re: Question about submodules and absolute paths Message-ID: <4FBC774E.5000500@viscovery.net> In-Reply-To: Am 5/22/2012 21:18, schrieb Alexey Pelykh: > Not on two machines, on single machine but with two OSes > Windows + Linux + shared 'work' partition :) So both Windows and Linux > use same repo clone that is stored on a 'work' partition. But due to > those absolute paths, it gives '/cygdrive/d/work' on windows and > '/media/work' on linux. Thus I have to keep 2 copies of each > repository that uses submodules (and that is very inconvenient :( ) I think you cannot share the index file between OSes. Even though its file format should be portable, the contents (stat information) is not portable. After you boot into a different OS, you need at least a 'git status' call to populate the index with the stat data from the new OS. -- Hannes