# Git over SMBFS 5 messages from 2010-10-06 to 2010-10-07. Participants: fREW Schmidt, Kai Blin, Casey Dahlin. Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/25363 ## fREW Schmidt, 2010-10-06 02:26 Subject: Git over SMBFS Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTik9U_jr6r6BuUcRrk8pjQTacKDY7YbqWnfrCLmD%40mail.gmail.com ``` A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a windows server.  The project is in git, but we are having a lot of trouble getting it to work at all.  For example, if he merely does (from his machine) "git checkout ." it seemingly times out after 680 files being checked out. Are there any settings we might be able to tweak that might make git more tolerable of the latency involved in a network based checkout? -- fREW Schmidt http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com ``` ## Kai Blin, 2010-10-06 05:36 Subject: Re: Git over SMBFS Message-ID: <4CAC0AEA.6050502@samba.org> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/4CAC0AEA.6050502%40samba.org In-Reply-To: ``` -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2010-10-06 04:26, fREW Schmidt wrote: > A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a > windows server. Please tell me you're not really using smbfs as the filesystem but you're actually using the cifs kernel module. smbfs has been deprecated years ago and is unlikely to work correctly against servers more recent than Win NT 4.0. Cheers, Kai - -- Kai Blin Worldforge developer http://www.worldforge.org/ Wine developer http://wiki.winehq.org/KaiBlin Samba team member http://www.samba.org/samba/team/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkysCuYACgkQEKXX/bF2FpSujgCfU6bRiu/m7OQe68ju5cl7Wl1H 2xoAn1roY9WnFQ1MN3hpFjna/iMfwWob =xGqM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ``` ## fREW Schmidt, 2010-10-06 14:12 Subject: Re: Git over SMBFS Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTi%3DMee1zUK1vX3GTVYfGaVH2dNOr2Phpu%3DNdrLTm%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <4CAC0AEA.6050502@samba.org> ``` > > A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a > > windows server. > > Please tell me you're not really using smbfs as the filesystem but > you're actually using the cifs kernel module. smbfs has been deprecated > years ago and is unlikely to work correctly against servers more recent > than Win NT 4.0. Yeah, sorry, it *is* cifs. -- fREW Schmidt http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com ``` ## Casey Dahlin, 2010-10-07 17:40 Subject: Re: Git over SMBFS Message-ID: <20101007174006.GA31711@fearengine.rdu.redhat.com> URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/20101007174006.GA31711%40fearengine.rdu.redhat.com In-Reply-To: ``` On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:26:15PM -0500, fREW Schmidt wrote: > A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a > windows server.  The project is in git, but we are having a lot of > trouble getting it to work at all.  For example, if he merely does > (from his machine) "git checkout ." it seemingly times out after 680 > files being checked out. > > Are there any settings we might be able to tweak that might make git > more tolerable of the latency involved in a network based checkout? > Sounds to me like the best way would be to make a local copy with git clone /path/to/cifs/mounted/project And then do your work on the local hard disk. Later, you can git-push back in to the cifs folder. --CJD ``` ## fREW Schmidt, 2010-10-07 22:49 Subject: Re: Git over SMBFS Message-ID: URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/AANLkTi%3DVa%2BrsiewbjHdRzMxKj96gFrvxT4%3DmuMeP9%3Dzq%40mail.gmail.com In-Reply-To: <20101007174006.GA31711@fearengine.rdu.redhat.com> ``` On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 05, 2010 at 09:26:15PM -0500, fREW Schmidt wrote: > > A coworker of mine is working on a project that is running on a > > windows server.  The project is in git, but we are having a lot of > > trouble getting it to work at all.  For example, if he merely does > > (from his machine) "git checkout ." it seemingly times out after 680 > > files being checked out. > > > > Are there any settings we might be able to tweak that might make git > > more tolerable of the latency involved in a network based checkout? > > > > Sounds to me like the best way would be to make a local copy with > > git clone /path/to/cifs/mounted/project > > And then do your work on the local hard disk. Later, you can git-push > back in to the cifs folder. That's actually what we've been doing. I was just curious if there were another way. -- fREW Schmidt http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com ```