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Users very commonly want to sync their working tree with uncommitted changes across machines, often to carry across in-progress work or stashes. Despite this not being a recommended approach, users want to do it and are not dissuaded by suggestions not to, so let's recommend a sensible technique. The technique that many users are using is their preferred cloud syncing service, which is a bad idea. Users have reported problems where they end up with duplicate files that won't go away (with names like "file.c 2"), broken references, oddly named references that have date stamps appended to them, missing objects, and general corruption and data loss. That's because almost all of these tools sync file by file, which is a great technique if your project is a single word processing document or spreadsheet, but is utterly abysmal for Git repositories because they don't necessarily snapshot the entire repository correctly. They also tend to sync the files immediately instead of when the repository is quiescent, so writing multiple files, as occurs during a commit or a gc, can confuse the tools and lead to corruption. We know that the old standby, rsync, is up to the task, provided that the repository is quiescent, so let's suggest that and dissuade people from using cloud syncing tools. Let's tell people about common things they should be aware of before doing this and that this is still potentially risky. Additionally, let's tell people that Git's security model does not permit sharing working trees across users in case they planned to do that. While we'd still prefer users didn't try to do this, hopefully this will lead them in a safer direction. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> |
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