Re: Multiple clients accessing git over NFS

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Khawaja Shams wrote:

>    I am still interested in knowing if git can handle multiple
> simultaneous pushes on the same repository without encountering
> corruption issues.

Yes, concurrent attempts to update a branch are serialized.  (But
please don't ask me to answer about NFS semantics.  See

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/750765/concurrency-in-a-git-repo-on-a-network-shared-folder

for some notes.)  See the note about fast-fowards in the git push
manual for how integrity is preserved.

After reading that, you might wonder: if there are many, many clients
pushing to the same branch, how is starvation avoided?  Good question!
It isn't.  If you have so many clients wanting to push to a single
branch, I would suggest having a single person or a few people
maintaining it, pulling from others.  Life will be better for many
reasons, especially quality control.

Hope that helps.
Jonathan