"Konstantin Khomoutov" <kostix+git@007spb.ru> wrote in message news:<20130116233744.7d0775eaec98ce154a9de180@domain007.com>...
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> On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:21:56 -0800
> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> >
> > I agree that performance is not ideal (although if you are on a fast
> > LAN, it probably would not matter much), but I do not recall any
> > specific bugs in that area. Can you elaborate?
>
> Of course, if there are happy users of such setups, I would be glad to
> hear as my precautions might well be unfounded for the recent versions
> of Git.
I'm a happy user of git on network file systems (NFS and CIFS/SMB), although not a heavy user.
> 1. http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=130
I wouldn't be surprised if there are some subtle POSIX-Win32 compatibility issues here between msysgit and Samba (POSIX GIT, ported to use Win32 file system functions, sending those Win32 requests to a Samba server, and the Samba server translating those Win32 requests back into POSIX functions).