On Jan 17, 2008, at 5:22 AM, Wincent Colaiuta wrote:

quoted text
> El 17/1/2008, a las 8:11, Mitch Tishmack escribi=F3:
>
>> I was going to post this earlier, but wanted to search the archives =20=

quoted text
>> first. Here are the commands assuming you don't want to or can't =20
>> partition a drive and format as ufs (I don't care for HFS+ much). I =20=

quoted text
>> can't believe I didn't find the command in the git list archives, =20
>> so voil=E0:
>>
>> $ hdiutil create -size 300m -fs UFS foo.dmg
>> =
..........................................................................=
.....
quoted text
>> created: /Users/mitch/foo.dmg
>> $ hdiutil attach foo.dmg
>> /dev/disk2          	GUID_partition_scheme          =09
>> /dev/disk2s1        	Apple_UFS                      	/Volumes/=20
>> untitled
>> $ cd /Volumes/untitled && git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/=20
>> git/git.git
>> ... snipped ...
>> $ cd git && git status
>> # On branch master
>> nothing to commit (working directory clean)
>>
>> After git clone in HFS+ land...
>> $ git status
>> # On branch master
>> # Untracked files:
>> #   (use "git add <file>..." to include in what will be committed)
>> #
>> #	gitweb/test/Ma=CC=88rchen
>> nothing added to commit but untracked files present (use "git add" =20=

quoted text
>> to track)
>>
>> Should I just add this to the wiki?
>
> Definitely.
>
>> Then we can all go back to ignoring the insane filesystems.
>
> While it's a nice workaround, it really is just that (a workaround) =20=

quoted text
> because performance will be suboptimal in a repository running on a =20=

quoted text
> disk image (and many of switched to Git because of its speed).

Not only is it suboptimal, it's also not acceptable, plain and simple. =20=

If an individual wants to do that, sure, but it's simply not an =20
appropriate solution in general for this problem. I certainly don't =20
want to have to attach a disk image every time I want access to =20
anything I keep in a git repo, nor do I want to be restricted to =20
keeping everything within a certain filesystem on disk. Additionally, =20=

while I'm not certain it's impossible, it's certainly very difficult =20
to attach a disk image without anybody logged into the system at the =20
GUI, as diskarbitrationd won't be running.

-Kevin Ballard

--=20
Kevin Ballard
http://kevin.sb.org
kevin@sb.org
http://www.tildesoft.com