From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on dcvr.yhbt.net X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-ASN: AS31976 209.132.176.0/21 X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.4 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MSGID_FROM_MTA_HEADER,RP_MATCHES_RCVD shortcircuit=no autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 From: "Dan Nicholson" Subject: Re: Can git be tweaked to work cross-platform, on FAT32? Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:55:03 -0800 Message-ID: <91705d080612191555k3dc6a473n4b1e4df2d22880bf@mail.gmail.com> References: <0MKwpI-1GuWVF2znk-0006fC@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> <46a038f90612132155rc987a9cs6a4fa33dd4c882c6@mail.gmail.com> <0ML25U-1GvWC81sjR-0001UB@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> <46a038f90612170221u4c3b5c2asef378d3d4e159ba7@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2006 23:55:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" , "Florian v. Savigny" , git@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=LMBeTcEfn9OttKry8SuV36cM9ul4Sw03041XKA7BCUs9Ki5SJVuHNGOgf/nGAaWnAJcGuylCZQ7nXwGxmIZnVPiHKVT/L0cwP5rmcZ0o5NMo+XIOK1IhatK21xqxhIEAICgPCY4jDgJ2BiRpP0G60MnOb8Dn7my2tWqN29I9P1Y= In-Reply-To: <46a038f90612170221u4c3b5c2asef378d3d4e159ba7@mail.gmail.com> Content-Disposition: inline Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Gwonf-00054Y-2Q for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:55:11 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752420AbWLSXzG (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:55:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752874AbWLSXzF (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:55:05 -0500 Received: from an-out-0708.google.com ([209.85.132.251]:8192 "EHLO an-out-0708.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752420AbWLSXzD (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Dec 2006 18:55:03 -0500 Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id b33so621215ana for ; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:55:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.125.5 with SMTP id x5mr5017877anc.1166572503106; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:55:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.100.96.18 with HTTP; Tue, 19 Dec 2006 15:55:03 -0800 (PST) To: "Martin Langhoff" Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org On 12/17/06, Martin Langhoff wrote: > > Note that under windows you can use ext2 -- haven't used it, and don't > know how cygwin behaves with it, but it may be *just* what you need to > avoid case sensitivity problems and have symlink support. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsd > > http://www.fs-driver.org/ I've used both of these guys, but not the most recent versions. Both were previously read-only, but now it appears both have write support from looking at the release notes. Both were a bit heavy handed to get setup, but a decently computer literate person could probably handle it. Ext2IFS in particular looks dramatically improved from when I last used it. Both worked fine through Cygwin for simple usage. I never did anything with serious disk usage on either of them, so I can't say how it stacks up to FAT32 on Linux in terms of really hammering the disk. A little more reading says ext2ifs can't handle permissions or symbolic links. http://www.fs-driver.org/faq.html I don't recall the details of ext2fsd, but I think symbolic links worked. I'd like to look at this again, but I spend all my time in Linux at home. --