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what's the current wisdom on git over NFS/CIFS?

From
Sitaram Chamarty <sitaramc@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 2, 2009, 13:11 UTC
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Hi all,

A couple of us were beating each other senseless on this issue over on #git, so I thought I'd ask: is it OK to do this? Or would there potential be race conditions due to the lack of proper locking?

The git faq says SMBFS is not recommended. Searching for "git on NFS" gets me too many hits about the NFS _code_ :-)

Thanks,
Sitaram
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