Hi Simon, Thank you for replying, and sorry for the delay in my own.
On Tue, Apr 07, 2020 at 06:00:11PM +0200, Simon Frei wrote: > Syncing a git repository, i.e. .git not the staging area, is prone to > break: Git has an elaborate structure that needs to stay consistent, > while Syncthing just sees a huge bunch of files changing very often. If > e.g. just a part of changed files are synced before a disconnect, that > immediately renders the git repo in an inconsistent state. For more info > see e.g. > https://forum.syncthing.net/t/can-syncthing-reliably-sync-local-git-repos-not-github/8404 > It's probably also mentioned in the linked thread above: Regardless of > technical limitations, it feels wrong to sync .git. Git is already > designed to sync changes, i.e. you should use git to sync git. Generally > stacking sync tools on top of sync tools is quite risky. Agreed. Let's keep this bug open until the Debian package contains documentation warning against this :-) Best, Nicholas
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