Thanks all for your detailed answers.
Playing with git on various environments, I have a couple more questions
that I could not (quickly) find answers on the web.
1. when checkout-ing on NTFS, I got all my files marked as changed
because of file permissions set from 100644 to 100755. I see there is a
config flag about file permissions (core.sharedRepository ?) but not
sure how to use it
2. I am working with NTFS on a truecrypt managed USB HD and I noticed
an order of magnitude difference in speed (ie. about 10x for checkout
of 50k files) between this and my ext3 FS on laptop HD. Is this
expected ? Some people here reported slowness on non-encrypted NTFS and
I think I read a couple of web fragments about speed difference between
the 2. WDYT ?
Regards,