git - GIT_DISCOVERY_ACROSS_FILESYSTEM problem when working with terminal and MacFusion

Question

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 & 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?

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7116015/git-discovery-across-filesystem-problem-when-working-with-terminal-and-macfusion

Answer 1

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.