Comment on Mounting git commits as folders with NFS (2023)parentComments−oefrha3moBy excellent do you mean bearable? macOS’s SMB stack is certainly not excellent.−adi_kurian3moBy bearable do you mean it exists? It's fucking shite.−donatj3moWhich is why I'm so angry they're killing AFP. It works so much better and is super easy to set up a server for on a Linux−nine_k3moWon't the SMB implementation be sufficient to mount git commits as folders?−jstanley3moNo, because SMB doesn't support execute permissions. So either all your files are executable or none of them are.−nine_k3moI would say that in a source code tree that represents old commits I'd like none of the files to be executable. (It would miss some commits that only change the executable bit though.)
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By excellent do you mean bearable? macOS’s SMB stack is certainly not excellent.
By bearable do you mean it exists? It's fucking shite.
Which is why I'm so angry they're killing AFP. It works so much better and is super easy to set up a server for on a Linux
Won't the SMB implementation be sufficient to mount git commits as folders?
No, because SMB doesn't support execute permissions. So either all your files are executable or none of them are.
I would say that in a source code tree that represents old commits I'd like none of the files to be executable. (It would miss some commits that only change the executable bit though.)