Comments on: Git over SSHFS

By: Rui Abreu

Rui Abreu — Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:27:28 +0000

Thank you !

By: Olav Cleemann

Olav Cleemann — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 10:33:26 +0000

Me = happy camper

Nice tip.

By: Yann Droneaud

Yann Droneaud — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 09:47:45 +0000

You might want to use option “-o noforget” too. See this thread:

On marc.info:
http://marc.info/?l=git&m=129789551203755&w=2
http://marc.info/?t=129789546800002&r=1&w=2

Or on gmane:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.file-systems.fuse.sshfs/1136

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 23:00:46 +0000

Thanks for publishing this tip! Just saved me a lot of time and frustration…

By: Alan LaMielle

Alan LaMielle — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:47:09 +0000

Ouch, sounds like even more of a restricted setup than I had. Thanks for the additional tips. Yes, I did notice that git over sshfs was a bit slower. However, I didn’t have ~50mb projects, so I probably didn’t see as much of an impact as you did.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 23:21:31 +0000

I ran into a similar problem. My remote machine lacks many of the useful tools on my local development machine, namely vim and git.

However I have the added problem of working on a shared server and am limited to a user account that is not in the sudoers file. Since the account that I develop with on my machine is not the same as my account on the remote server, git was failing with a “could not commit config file” error.

So, on my local machine, I created a user and group to mimic the user and group on the remote machine. (Notice that I am already root. If you don’t like to roll as root, you’ll have to use sudo).

root@bitbox: addgroup –gid=1235 studmuffins
root@bitbox: adduser andrew –uid=1234 –ingroup studmuffins

Then, I had to add a couple more options to the sshfs command in addition to the workaround:

root@bitbox: sshfs -o workaround=rename -o allow_other -o uid=1234 -o gid=1235 andrew@shittyhost.com:/path/to/remote/dir /path/to/local/mountpoint

So far, this seems to be working. But a WARNING to everybody using git over sshfs is very, veeeeery, sloooooooooooooooooowwwwwwww. For instance, I tried doing:

git add *

It took about 30 minutes for a 60MB project, only to fail entirely due to permission issues on a single file. Suck.