From: Matt Seitz (matseitz) Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 21:07:53 GMT Subject: Re: Question re. git remote repository Message-ID: "Konstantin Khomoutov" wrote in message news:<20130116233744.7d0775eaec98ce154a9de180@domain007.com>... > On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:21:56 -0800 > Jeff King wrote: > > > > I agree that performance is not ideal (although if you are on a fast > > LAN, it probably would not matter much), but I do not recall any > > specific bugs in that area. Can you elaborate? > > Of course, if there are happy users of such setups, I would be glad to > hear as my precautions might well be unfounded for the recent versions > of Git. I'm a happy user of git on network file systems (NFS and CIFS/SMB), although not a heavy user. > 1. http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=130 I wouldn't be surprised if there are some subtle POSIX-Win32 compatibility issues here between msysgit and Samba (POSIX GIT, ported to use Win32 file system functions, sending those Win32 requests to a Samba server, and the Samba server translating those Win32 requests back into POSIX functions).