[Someone]

FTA: “problem 1: webdav or NFS?

The two filesystems I could that were natively supported by Mac OS were WebDav and NFS. I couldn’t tell which would be easier to implement so I just tried both”

I might find out that it is incomplete, buggy or a nuisance to use, but FSKit (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/FSKit) would be my first choice.

[skissane]

FSKit was released with Sequoia in March 2025. This blog post was written in December 2023—so at the time it was written, FSKit was not yet an option

[Someone]

HN messes up time stamps when submissions get reposted.

I wrote my comment two days ago. I don’t think the title contained “(2023)” then.

[blaz0]

macOS actually has an excellent SMB client, so the options actually are: WebDAV, NFS (3.0 and 4.0), SMB, FSKit.

[oefrha]

By excellent do you mean bearable? macOS’s SMB stack is certainly not excellent.

[adi_kurian]

By bearable do you mean it exists? It's fucking shite.

[donatj]

Which is why I'm so angry they're killing AFP. It works so much better and is super easy to set up a server for on a Linux

[nine_k]

Won't the SMB implementation be sufficient to mount git commits as folders?

[jstanley]

No, because SMB doesn't support execute permissions. So either all your files are executable or none of them are.

[nine_k]

I would say that in a source code tree that represents old commits I'd like none of the files to be executable. (It would miss some commits that only change the executable bit though.)

[js2]

AFAIK, SMB doesn't support symbolic links.

[lostmsu]

Git should not have supported them either.