Thanks all for your detailed answers. Playing with git on various environments, I have a couple more questions that I could not (quickly) find answers on the web. 1. when checkout-ing on NTFS, I got all my files marked as changed because of file permissions set from 100644 to 100755. I see there is a config flag about file permissions (core.sharedRepository ?) but not sure how to use it 2. I am working with NTFS on a truecrypt managed USB HD and I noticed an order of magnitude difference in speed (ie. about 10x for checkout of 50k files) between this and my ext3 FS on laptop HD. Is this expected ? Some people here reported slowness on non-encrypted NTFS and I think I read a couple of web fragments about speed difference between the 2. WDYT ? Regards, -- Arnaud Bailly -- OQube <software engineering> http://www.oqube.com/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html