advisability of CIFS/SMBFS

[Rustom Mody <rustompmody@gmail.com>]

I see a mention of CIFS/SMBFS on the faq and some mails but no clear
position on whether its ok or not.

My question is in the following context:

- Our team (5-6 programmers) use windows and linux for development
- We are on a windows 'network neighborhood' type system (I guess this is CIFS?)
- there is a linux box for an (internal) server and some dual boots

If I can make a repo smbmounted on one of the linux partitions then we
can push/pull from each others' repos almost like between local repos
ie without ssh etc.  Of course this assumes the directories are made
suitably shareable by the team members.

Of course one could say: Whats the point of using the best distributed
vcs without using the distributed features.

Well our reasons for git are:
- efficient branching and sophisticated merge, branch surgery with
rebase, cherry-pick
- mailing patches (sometimes people work from home)
- other goodies like interactive add, stash etc

So is smbmounting git repos ok or is plain ol' ssh safer/preferable?