From: Ain Valtin <ain.valtin@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 11:45:46 GMT
Subject: Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive
Message-ID: <CADgy817rrg0s9icaT_QdAWGiRsb6T5eg4LJAc+Q7CdM=Csexkw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20131019111137.GT13967@paksenarrion.iveqy.com>

On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson <iveqy@iveqy.com> wrote:
>
> 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