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From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
To: Alexey Pelykh <alexey.pelykh@gmail.com>
Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Question about submodules and absolute paths
Date: Wed, 23 May 2012 07:36:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FBC774E.5000500@viscovery.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOmKuSrmxnHKaip2X87Y0Cp=XtLAtpAwUp71QhZ5od3gbDF2sg@mail.gmail.com>

Am 5/22/2012 21:18, schrieb Alexey Pelykh:
> Not on two machines, on single machine but with two OSes
> Windows + Linux + shared 'work' partition :) So both Windows and Linux
> use same repo clone that is stored on a 'work' partition. But due to
> those absolute paths, it gives '/cygdrive/d/work' on windows and
> '/media/work' on linux. Thus I have to keep 2 copies of each
> repository that uses submodules (and that is very inconvenient :( )

I think you cannot share the index file between OSes. Even though its file
format should be portable, the contents (stat information) is not
portable. After you boot into a different OS, you need at least a 'git
status' call to populate the index with the stat data from the new OS.

-- Hannes

  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-23  5:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <CAOmKuSoYP9fYORDy5twLpFh7SQ7rc6x2A=F8XjfKMqo-ErCauQ@mail.gmail.com>
2012-05-22 11:36 ` Question about submodules and absolute paths Alexey Pelykh
2012-05-22 18:27   ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-22 19:18     ` Alexey Pelykh
2012-05-22 19:25       ` Matt Seitz (matseitz)
2012-05-22 19:29         ` Alexey Pelykh
2012-05-22 19:36           ` Matt Seitz (matseitz)
2012-05-22 20:25             ` Alexey Pelykh
2012-05-22 21:06               ` Junio C Hamano
2012-05-23  7:24                 ` Jens Lehmann
2012-05-23  7:32                   ` Alexey Pelykh
2012-05-23 20:42                     ` Jens Lehmann
2012-05-24  5:08                       ` Alexey Pelykh
2012-05-23  5:36       ` Johannes Sixt [this message]
2012-05-23  5:39         ` Alexey Pelykh

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