[sshfs] Problem with Git and sshfs-fuse

[Johannes R. <ja...@gm...>]

Hi,

I am using git to synchronise data with another computer via sshfs. This
worked well for quite some time, but since yesterday it does not work
any more.

Usually I do the following:

1. Commit changes to git repository
git commit -a -m "..."

2. Mount my remote home directory via sshfs
sshfs jrauh@dirac: ~jarauh/dirac

3. Update the remote git repository
cd ~/dirac/LaTeX
git pull

Now I get the following error messages:

error: Couldn't set refs/remotes/origin/master
>From /home/jarauh/LaTeX
 ! f33da15..b8811bc  master     -> origin/master  (unable to update
local ref)
error: some local refs could not be updated; try running
 'git remote prune origin' to remove any old, conflicting branches

Now I am no expert of git, but I am pretty sure that it is a problem of
sshfs for the following reason: When I try to clone my repository to
some other directory, I get the following error messages, when I am in a
directory mounted via sshfs:

error: could not commit config file
/home/jarauh/dirac/test/LaTeX/.git/config
error: could not commit config file
/home/jarauh/dirac/test/LaTeX/.git/config
error: could not commit config file
/home/jarauh/dirac/test/LaTeX/.git/config
Initialized empty Git repository in /home/jarauh/dirac/test/LaTeX/.git/
error: could not commit config file
/home/jarauh/dirac/test/LaTeX/.git/config
error: could not commit config file
/home/jarauh/dirac/test/LaTeX/.git/config
error: Unable to create /home/jarauh/dirac/test/LaTeX/.git/HEAD
error: could not commit config file
/home/jarauh/dirac/test/LaTeX/.git/config
error: could not commit config file
/home/jarauh/dirac/test/LaTeX/.git/config
Checking out files: 100% (1029/1029), done.

However, when I checkout the same repository from another directory,
everything works fine.

The only similar problem I found on the web was a case with encfs:
http://code.google.com/p/encfs/issues/detail?id=11
I am not sure if it is related.

My kernel is linux-2.6.28-gentoo-r5
I tried to recompile the fuse module, but that did not help either.

Thanks a lot!

Johannes