Re: Git over SMBFS

From: fREW Schmidt <frioux@gmail.com>
Date: Oct 7, 2010, 22:49 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=Va+rsiewbjHdRzMxKj96gFrvxT4=muMeP9=zq@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20101007174006.GA31711@fearengine.rdu.redhat.com>

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@redhat.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:26:15PM -0500, fREW Schmidt wrote:
> > A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a
> > windows server.  The project is in git, but we are having a lot of
> > trouble getting it to work at all.  For example, if he merely does
> > (from his machine) "git checkout ." it seemingly times out after 680
> > files being checked out.
> >
> > Are there any settings we might be able to tweak that might make git
> > more tolerable of the latency involved in a network based checkout?
> >
>
> Sounds to me like the best way would be to make a local copy with
>
> git clone /path/to/cifs/mounted/project
>
> And then do your work on the local hard disk. Later, you can git-push
> back in to the cifs folder.

That's actually what we've been doing. I was just curious if there were another way.

-- fREW Schmidt http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com