GIT and VMWare/Volumes

Question

I have MacBook and Ubuntu Server on it as part of VMWare fusion virtual machine. When I use GIT on my local disk (Mac) everything is working perfectly but when I try to use git on volumes I have problems.

For example /Volumes/vm1/webfolder is my local .git repository. If I create clone like

$git@myserver:byrepo.git

then I check for changes like

$git pull --rebase origin master

all files differs and need update. What is the problem? For info... the same effect I get using shared VMWare folders on Windows. Is there permission problem or user owner problem?

Fix for it? Thx!

Answer 1

I'm having a bit of trouble telling exactly what your problem is, but if you're saying that git-pull refuses to act, stating that everything has been modified, it is quite possible you their permissions have changed. Check the output of git diff to confirm this, and if it's the case and it's safe to ignore permission changes, try setting core.filemode to false:

git config core.filemode false