From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ain Valtin Subject: Re: separate-git-dir doesn't work with mapped drive Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 14:45:46 +0300 Message-ID: References: <20131019111137.GT13967@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Fredrik Gustafsson X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Sat Oct 19 13:46:00 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VXUye-0001rE-Jl for gcvg-git-2@plane.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 13:45:52 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751877Ab3JSLpr (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:45:47 -0400 Received: from mail-ve0-f182.google.com ([209.85.128.182]:41291 "EHLO mail-ve0-f182.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751716Ab3JSLpr (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Oct 2013 07:45:47 -0400 Received: by mail-ve0-f182.google.com with SMTP id oy12so2629857veb.41 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 04:45:46 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=NP6vtivZ6pbvZzUdmbQhx1WgpWQpa38yyAhjlBeQNn0=; b=aiee4SIaesFa0daodNksL0/PeNKwh6x9Yba3rvKnO+x5YUBtjOjr6DFc7r7kcD2eTh E49/kf1ZjrFK5tB3DWyn/IVaf2wcK4MTf3TAlfvhs1P/fwWpkM7GM0rCqPcBmtuwBdc9 QiXHKHI7YJNfaukIORTvd/BegmMLp7YSte/2BbmbAd2EKnq5XFSKxQ3UbH+bZ6WKsbcU 0ObA+YAqMNcQ94/XyH9lZRmFu+PYgFws7Oxq6Cn1aJy9vJeJ46GTZK/av+7jY6gOtIal FgY9KdQUOSmLpTjNGoyLjJP0DCae9o3Gt0knCbZGDFPFyu0ZDh1m8UvWCGi4VwIRsKeZ C7UQ== X-Received: by 10.221.64.17 with SMTP id xg17mr4974451vcb.5.1382183146348; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 04:45:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.220.215.74 with HTTP; Sat, 19 Oct 2013 04:45:46 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20131019111137.GT13967@paksenarrion.iveqy.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Fredrik Gustafsson wrote: > > Git has a bad history with mapped drives in windows. It's also usually a > bad idea to use git over the network (and most mapped drives are over > the network and not local between virt. machines). > > I would advise not to use this setup since for the past two years that > git has sometime worked and sometimes not with this setup. (It's not > just seperate git dir, a git dir at all over a smb share have been > problematic). That's a shame :( As I wrote I want to use git in a virtual machine and as a extra precaution it would be nice to have the repo outside of the VM, on the host drive - should the VM not to start up for whatever reason I wouldn't lose my repo with it... ain