From: Felipe Carvalho Oliveira <felipekde@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:26:18 GMT
Subject: Tip: avoiding net overhead using git over sshfs
Message-ID: <a2075f4c0810221826w511a3b87r6fea4fb0dee24e1f@mail.gmail.com>

Use git over sshfs is not so good, but is an option for people that
don't have shell acess to the server/hosting like me.

# mounting
sshfs -o workaround=rename <user>@<host>:/home/<user>/  <mount_point>
cd <the_directory_of_your_project>

# we will move the .git directory to the local filesystem
mv .git ~/.my_project_git
# and create a symlink to the local .git
ln -s ~/.my_project_git .git

Done!

Now you can open gitk instantly ;-) and don't need to have the entire
.git thing on a remote filesystem.

         Felipe (from Brazil, my english skills aren't so good :-)