Re: Question about submodules and absolute paths

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Thanks for pointing this
I haven't experienced issue with this. Maybe due to my git on Windows
is actually part of cygwin? Or maybe git status is 99% is what I do
before any operation with git :)

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 8:36 AM, Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Am 5/22/2012 21:18, schrieb Alexey Pelykh:
> > Not on two machines, on single machine but with two OSes
> > Windows + Linux + shared 'work' partition :) So both Windows and Linux
> > use same repo clone that is stored on a 'work' partition. But due to
> > those absolute paths, it gives '/cygdrive/d/work' on windows and
> > '/media/work' on linux. Thus I have to keep 2 copies of each
> > repository that uses submodules (and that is very inconvenient :( )
>
> I think you cannot share the index file between OSes. Even though its file
> format should be portable, the contents (stat information) is not
> portable. After you boot into a different OS, you need at least a 'git
> status' call to populate the index with the stat data from the new OS.
>
> -- Hannes
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