On Wed, 16 Jan 2013 10:21:56 -0800 Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> wrote: Thanks for elaborating on the "origin" -- I intended to write up on its special status but got distracted and sent my message missing that bit ;-) [...] > > > Ideally we'd prefer to simply create our remote repository on a > > > drive of one of our local network servers. Is this possible? > > > > Yes, this is possible, but it's not advised to keep such a > > "reference" repository on an exported networked drive for a number > > of reasons (both performance and bug-free operation). > > I agree that performance is not ideal (although if you are on a fast > LAN, it probably would not matter much), but I do not recall any > specific bugs in that area. Can you elaborate? This one [1] for instance. I also recall seing people having other "mystical" problems with setups like this so I somehow developed an idea than having a repository on a networked drive is asking for troubles. Of course, if there are happy users of such setups, I would be glad to hear as my precautions might well be unfounded for the recent versions of Git. 1. http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/issues/detail?id=130 -- 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