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Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive

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AVAin Valtin <ain.valtin@gmail.com>
Date
Oct 19, 2013, 11:45 UTC
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On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> wrote:
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> Git has a bad history with mapped drives in windows. It's also usually a
> bad idea to use git over the network (and most mapped drives are over
> the network and not local between virt. machines).
>
> I would advise not to use this setup since for the past two years that
> git has sometime worked and sometimes not with this setup. (It's not
> just seperate git dir, a git dir at all over a smb share have been
> problematic).

That's a shame :( As I wrote I want to use git in a virtual machine and as a extra precaution it would be nice to have the repo outside of the VM, on the host drive - should the VM not to start up for whatever reason I wouldn't lose my repo with it...

ain
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  1. Ain ValtinOct 19, 2013
  2. Duy NguyenOct 19, 2013
  3. Fredrik GustafssonOct 19, 2013
  4. Ain ValtinOct 19, 2013
  5. Fredrik GustafssonOct 19, 2013
  6. Torsten BögershausenOct 19, 2013
  7. Ain ValtinOct 19, 2013

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