Re: git clone / git pull to USB memory stick (FAT) and symlinks

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Nov 11, 2010, 17:54 UTC
Message-ID: <7vk4kjhhjh.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <ibh605$adm$1@dough.gmane.org>

Gelonida <gelonida@gmail.com> writes:

> I thought about cloning a remote git repository onto the stick
> and performing
> - regular pulls in order to update the USB stick
> - occasional pushes in orderto publish changes performed on the stick.

... missing is the reason why this is done to a USB memory stick. More specifically,...

> 1.) Ignore skip / symlinks
> 2.) Avoiding file permission issues: Is this sufficient

These become non-issues _if_ the reason you are putting this on an USB stick is to safekeep and sneakernet the project data, and are not interested in having a working tree on the stick, which I often find is the use case after grilling people who ask about placing git repositories on an USB stick.

And the commands to interact with such a repository without a working tree are to "push" (into it), and "fetch" (from it). IOW, you do not "pull" into USB stick.

If you do need a working tree on the stick, and the stick has a FAT derived filesystem (which would be the most common), then you would need

> git config --add core.fileMode false

and perhaps "core.symlinks false" also would help