Git over SMBFS

Git over SMBFS

[fREW Schmidt]

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?

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fREW Schmidt
http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com

Re: Git over SMBFS

[Kai Blin]

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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

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Re: Git over SMBFS

[fREW Schmidt]

> > 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

Re: Git over SMBFS

[Casey Dahlin]

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

Re: Git over SMBFS

[fREW Schmidt]

On Thu, Oct 7, 2010 at 12:40 PM, Casey Dahlin <cdahlin@redhat.com> 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.


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fREW Schmidt
http://blog.afoolishmanifesto.com