Hi, On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Florian v. Savigny wrote: > DO your answers imply that it is NOT possible (by "possible", I mean of > course: possible without re-programming the source code ;-)) to compile > git in a way that would enable it to work DIRECTLY with a local > repository on FAT32 from both Windows and Linux (or, perhaps more > simple: to work directly with a repository on FAT32 under Linux)? My answer was not so clear... Question: Is it possible to use git on a FAT32 filesystem? Answer: Yes. Question: Is it possible to access such a repository from both Linux and Windows? Answer: Yes. Question: Is there anything that could cause problems? Answer: Yes. The working directory is a problem. - Symlinks for example. Don't use them. - Umlauts: don't use them. - The index has to be updated, since the stat information is unlikely to match. A simple "git status" should suffice, though. - Permissions: the permission handling of Linux and Windows are quite different. If you initialize the repository with Cygwin, it automatically sets core.filemode=false, if you initalize(d) with Linux, you have to adjust manually. Question: Are there other shortcomings to this approach? Answer: Definitely. Most are only annoying (like the performance of FAT32, which literally sucks), but some are different: for example, if you compile things in the working directory, you will be unhappy. > 3. ad Johannes: This does sound quite simple and straightforward. If I > got it right, it would involve having one repository on a, say, > ext2 partition to work with under Linux, and one on a FAT32 > partition to work with under Windows, and syncing the two after > booting (fetching from FAT32) and before shutting down (pushing to > FAT32) Linux. This is how I'd do it. > It is quite interesting, BTW, that git can /sync/ with a repository > on FAT32 under Linux, but not work with it. You can. But I wouldn't. I like to keep separations clean and obvious. Ciao, Dscho - 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