Colloborating via NFS vs. umask

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at serpentine.com
Mon Dec 17 18:37:58 CST 2007


Georg Sauthoff wrote:

> How do you work in NFS-based environments with mercurial?

Don't.  Use HTTP or ssh instead.  NFS gives terrible performance, and
its file locking and caching semantics are not trustworthy.  (Maybe they
are in principle, but in practice it's never been hard to find different
operating systems with interop bugs.)  Just don't go there.

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