Posted this tip to Apple Discussions:

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2139000&start=0&tstart=0

… where for a long, long time, Mac OS 10 users have had troubles, not only connecting from the Mac to Windows Vista and Windows 7 machines (getting an “Error code -36), but also copying files (“Error code -41″).

While copying attempts at the Mac command line would result in an error message: “cannot allocate memory”.

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.