GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM problem when working with terminal and MacFusion

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I m using MacFusion with OSXFuse similar to MacFuse  to mount my server over SSH onto my office machine  When I cd into my rails work directory on the server  i can t see any git info in my zsh prompt  If i try a git pull origin  i get the following error message   fatal  Not a git repository  or any parent up to mount parent  Volumes  Stopping at filesystem boundary  GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM not set    I know I can ssh to the server but then wouldn t I lose zsh autocorrection  amp  history  Wouldn t I also need to set up textmate and other software to use ssh  And wouldn t I need to remote desktop to install DMG s and so on  All of that seems like a bit of a hassle   Is there a better way to do what I want to do  Otherwise is there a way to enable GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM   PS - MacFusion can also mount the server over FTP - would that be preferable to SSH

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Are you ssh ing to a directory that s inside your work tree  If the root of your ssh mount point doesn t include the  git dir  then zsh won t be able to find git info  Make sure you re mounting something that includes the root of the repo   As for GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM  it doesn t do what you want  Git by default will stop at a filesystem boundary  If you turn that on  and it s just an env var   then git will cross the filesystem boundary and keep looking  However  that s almost never useful  because you d be implying that you have a  git directory on your local machine that s somehow meant to manage a work tree that s comprised partially of an sshfs mount  That doesn t make much sense

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Coming here from first Google hit   You can turn off the behavior AND and warning by exporting GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM 1     On heroku  if you heroku config set GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM 1 the warning will go away   It s probably because you are building a gem from source and the gemspec shells out to git  like many do today   So  you ll still get the warning fatal  Not a git repository  or any of the parent directories    git but addressing that is for another day     My answer is a duplicate of  - comment GIT DISCOVERY ACROSS FILESYSTEM problem when working with terminal and MacFusion

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Try a different protocol  git    may have problems from your firewall  for example  try a git clone with https  instead

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You will also get this if git doesn t have permissions to read the config files  It will just go up in the hierarchy tree until it needs to cross file systems

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I got this error until I realized that I hadn t intialized a Git repository in that folder  on a mounted vagrant machine   So I typed git init and then git worked

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My Problem was that I was not in the correct git directory that I just cloned

[git] GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM problem when working with terminal and MacFusion

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