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cygwin git and network drives

Subject: cygwin git and network drives

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Peter Vun· Jul 21, 2008, 07:09 UTC · lore
Hi Guys, 

I'm currently testing Git on our office network and I noticed on the following site

http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/CygwinBinaryInstall
that is says

Use git on local NTFS disks -- Network drives disks don't support the filesystem semantics GIT needs; for interoperability purposes you can store bare repositories on FAT32 disks.

Does anyone know if the above statement is still valid? Personally, I've tested cygwin Git with network drives a couple of times and I haven't encountered any problems, (yet!!).

Any details on Git's limits with regards to this issue would be much appreciated.

Cheers Peter

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