Hi,
I am calm :) As welcome I tried to find the cause and thank you all very much
for your involvement and help.
I don't understand what is some "hostility" towards tools like OneDrive and
trying to use them in conjunction with GIT is perceived so negatively.
They are completely different tools with different tasks and goals.
To the GIT repository does not commit every saved line, etc. - after all,
that's not what GIT is for. OneDriwe drive saves every copy of the saved file -
so that even if there were a disk failure in the computer or some other event
that physically destroys the hardware, I am protected. Making extra copies with
GIT tools is good, it does not (for me) solve the problem and is "flawed in
itself".
Don't be surprised if people think of a non-committal way to secure their work
with proven tools.
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From: git-users@googlegroups.com <git-users@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of
Konstantin Khomoutov
Sent: Sunday, December 4, 2022 1:01 PM
To: git-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [git-users] Re: The git projects disappeared after the updated
On Sat, Dec 03, 2022 at 08:38:32PM +0100, rozanski.s...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
> That is to say, I already have the culprit - in earlier versions of
> Git I could keep repositories in OneDrive without any problem and
> everything worked fine, but now it is throwing errors :( :( :( :(.
>
> Any ideas?
Git never supported keeping its repositores on non-local filesystems such as
OneDrive (or whatever other "cloud" drive or networked filesystems such as NFS
or CIFS/Samba). It does have some hacks and kludges to facilitate working on
_some_ of them, but it's never guaranteed. This is not some whimsical decision
of the Git's creators: such filesystems, while called that, do not implement
(or do not implement properly) many aspects of the behavior of "real"
filesystems Git relies on to work properly.
The best way to maintain an offline ("in the cloud") copy of a normal local
repository is using the `git bundle` command and have the cloud software sync
the produced single file - a bundle - to the cloud.
A bundle is a special sort of archive which can be fetched from, as if that
were a regular repository.
See [1] and [2].
I understand this is more complicated as it requires an extra step, but I'd
want to reiterate that the fact Git _happened_ to work with OneDrive is sort of
pure luck. Even if you'll report this problem to the Git developers and they
will somehow manage to work around this, nothing prevents this situation from
occuring in the future - both due changes in Git and changes in OneDrive.
While we are at it, please next time be more constructive right from the
start: keeping a repository on a non-filesystem is the single most crucial fact
which was communicated to the auditory after a copious mail exchange (and
everyone's time spent at guessing).
Also please refrain from resorting TO WRITING IN CAPS: I understand that you
are annoyed by this problem (and I would be too, were I in your place) but you
asked for help, and folks genuinely tried to provide it. So there's no point in
overstating your concerns or demands: you're not talking to repesentatives of a
commercial entity which signed some support contract with you.
So, stay calm :-)
1. https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Bundling
2. https://git-scm.com/docs/git-bundle
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