Re: using the same repo with different OS

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mar 12, 2007, 20:05 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0703122100550.22628@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <906f26060703121133o6de42d66y9f3ada50149a852c@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,

On Mon, 12 Mar 2007, Stefano Spinucci wrote:

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> On 2/28/07, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
> > 
> > Stefano Spinucci <virgo977virgo@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Than I'm asking how you'd setup repos to work on some linux/windows
> > > machines, transferring data only with an USB disk.
> > 
> > Just create a bare repository on the USB stick and push/fetch to it.
> > It won't have a checkout directory or an index, the two sticking
> > points with mmap() on Windows and with a FAT32 filesystem being
> > accessed through Git by both Linux and Windows.
> 
> Needing to have my repos backupped and only on fat32 usb keys, I was
> thinking to have the following layout:
> on usb key one --> repo.linux
> on usb key two --> repo.win
> 
> Then, on repo.win, I'll do:
> # before daily work on windows
> fetch from repo.linux
> # after daily work on windows
> push to repo.linux
> 
> Otherwise, on repo.linux:
> # before nightly work on linux
> fetch from repo.windows
> # after nightly work on linux
> push to repo.windows
> 
> It's possible, or I need a third bare repository between windows and 
> linux ???

No need for a third one. You can even use alternates to save space:

$ git clone -l -s repo.linux repo.windows

When git-gc'ing, the objects will be packed, but if they are present in both repo.linux and repo.windows, the objects from repo.linux will be reused in repo.windows.

Note: USB sticks are almost as fragile as disks used to be... So, try 
avoiding writes if you can...

Ciao, Dscho