From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Vun Subject: cygwin git and network drives Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:09:47 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 21 09:16:10 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KKpcv-0001G0-Pr for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 09:16:10 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751661AbYGUHPJ (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:15:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750825AbYGUHPI (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:15:08 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:60212 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750719AbYGUHPH (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:15:07 -0400 Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KKpbq-0007vv-IQ for git@vger.kernel.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:15:03 +0000 Received: from CPE-61-9-196-200.static.nsw.bigpond.net.au ([61.9.196.200]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:15:02 +0000 Received: from pvun by CPE-61-9-196-200.static.nsw.bigpond.net.au with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:15:02 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 61.9.196.200 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080702 Firefox/2.0.0.16) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Hi Guys, I'm currently testing Git on our office network and I noticed on the following site http://git.or.cz/gitwiki/CygwinBinaryInstall that is says Use git on local NTFS disks -- Network drives disks don't support the filesystem semantics GIT needs; for interoperability purposes you can store bare repositories on FAT32 disks. Does anyone know if the above statement is still valid? Personally, I've tested cygwin Git with network drives a couple of times and I haven't encountered any problems, (yet!!). Any details on Git's limits with regards to this issue would be much appreciated. Cheers Peter