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advisability of CIFS/SMBFS

Subject: advisability of CIFS/SMBFS

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Rustom Mody· Jul 13, 2009, 10:27 UTC · lore

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?
Sitaram Chamarty· Jul 13, 2009, 16:44 UTC · re: Rustom Mody · lore

Re: advisability of CIFS/SMBFS

On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Rustom Mody<rustompmody@gmail.com> wrote:
> I see a mention of CIFS/SMBFS on the faq and some mails but no clear
> position on whether its ok or not.

http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/122670 and other mails in that thread may help.

Sitaram

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