Does someone have experience sharing the same git repository between Linux and Windows? e.g. I have a /mnt/d/ NTFS partition, which has my “project” git repository; I also have msys-git installed under windows, which accesses that repository at D:\projects\. The problem is that while “git pull; git status” under linux shows no changes to commit, reboot into windows and “git status” shows quite a number of “modified” files.

I haven’t yet had courage to do “git reset –hard” in windows to see if that fixes the problem (the repository is too large to restore over the network).

Any suggestions are welcome (I’m subscribed to followup comments).

Even better than that is the fact that you replace the admin you’d then have to do on the server (add user, populate authorized_keys, add them to groups, wonder if the unix groups really reflect what you wanted, check it works, perhaps restrict their shell, wonder if you’ve done everything), with:

1) “Joe, send me a mail with an ssh id.pub”
2) cd …/gitosis-admin
3) cut&paste id.pub to keydir/joe_bloggs.pub
4) edit “joe_bloggs” into the relevant group menbers lists in gitosis.conf
5) git commit -m “+joe_blogs” keydir/joe_bloggs.pub gitosis.conf
6) git push

and you’re done (all from your laptop

Cheers, Phil.

If your tools can cope with Unix-style line endings (Visual Studio does), I find it much better to shut autocrlf off.

Thanks for the summaries. I’ll look at disabling non-fast-forward updates.

The whitespace setting allows you to refuse commits that add whitespace at the end of a line in some file. That is more useful for the working repos than the shared one, as refusing a commit that late will make it necessary for people to rebase (also, I’m not sure this actually works for push/pull only repos).