Git operations on NFS storage

Context

The CL storage is made of NFS shares from ZI's storage services. Cloning, pulling or forking a git repository on an NFS share will incur in errors.

Procedure

A workaround is to clone or fork the repository to a machine that has a location dedicated to you on its local storage. This can be your machine. You also have a location dedicated to you on our infrastructure if you have access to a GPU server.

Cloning repo onto your own computer

If you're on Mac or Linux, or in a WSL terminal on windows, clone the repository locally, then run

scp -r /your/local/folder <your_user>@login2.cl.uzh.ch:/home/<your_user>/

For example:

scp -r /home/mawang/git_repo mawang@login2.cl.uzh.ch:/home/mawang/

Enter your UZH password when prompted (the same you use for your Microsoft logins).

A copy of the repository is now on your home folder in the CL storage and can be accessed from any server of our infra. Note that this is a static copy, and you cannot pull from remote or do any of the most common git operations on it.

Cloning the repo to one of the GPU servers

Navigate to /local/scratch/<your_user>/ and clone the repository locally.
Then, run scp -r /local/scratch/<your_user>/git_repo <your_user>@login2.cl.uzh.ch:/home/<your_user>/

For example , if your username is mawang the command will be

scp -r /local/scratch/mawang/git_repo mawang@login2.cl.uzh.ch:/home/mawang/

Enter your UZH password when prompted (the same you use for your Microsoft logins).

A copy of the repository is now on your home folder in the CL storage and can be accessed from any server of our infra.

Note: that this is a static copy, and you cannot pull from remote or do any of the most common git operations on it. You can however work on it as it is on /local/scratch/<your_user>