Question

The Git issue is described in details here.

I’m on OS X 10.6.5, working on the project that runs only on Ubuntu.

I run Ubuntu 10.10 x86 as a guest in VMWare Fusion 3.1.2.

My work is in ~/projects/ on OS X. I mount the projects directory in the Ubuntu guest via VMWare’s hgfs: /mnt/hgfs/projects.

In Ubuntu I symlink /mnt/hgfs/projects to ~/projects.

As a part of my workflow I have to run a script that does

(cd /absolute/path/to/project/ && git add /absolute/path/to/project/some/file)

Due to the above issue the script does not work. I need to workaround this somehow.

What should be left as is:

• My files must be on OS X, in ~/projects. I have other non-Ubuntu stuff there, and I’d hate to keep track of several directories on several OSes. Also, I should be able to edit my files in my favorite OS X-only editor.
• Files must be instantly synchronized between Ubuntu and OS X. I should not wait and I should not run anything by hand.
• I do not want to change the script.
• I’d like files in Ubuntu to stay in ~/projects.

I guess that, given these requirements, my options are not that numerous.

The one I see is to mount the OS X ~/projects to Ubuntu ~/projects directly.

The question is, what is the most robust way to do it? Last time I looked, SSHFS and NFS support in OS X was flaky (but perhaps I did not look that well).

Is there a way to change hgfs mount point?

Answer 1

Easy:

rm ${HOME}/projects # Remove symlink
mkdir ${HOME}/projects
sudo mount -t vmhgfs .host:/projects "${HOME}/projects"