From: Rustom Mody Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 10:27:10 GMT Subject: advisability of CIFS/SMBFS Message-ID: I see a mention of CIFS/SMBFS on the faq and some mails but no clear position on whether its ok or not. My question is in the following context: - Our team (5-6 programmers) use windows and linux for development - We are on a windows 'network neighborhood' type system (I guess this is CIFS?) - there is a linux box for an (internal) server and some dual boots If I can make a repo smbmounted on one of the linux partitions then we can push/pull from each others' repos almost like between local repos ie without ssh etc. Of course this assumes the directories are made suitably shareable by the team members. Of course one could say: Whats the point of using the best distributed vcs without using the distributed features. Well our reasons for git are: - efficient branching and sophisticated merge, branch surgery with rebase, cherry-pick - mailing patches (sometimes people work from home) - other goodies like interactive add, stash etc So is smbmounting git repos ok or is plain ol' ssh safer/preferable?