You can find what operations are supported in the hdfs-fuse source: https://github.com/cloudera/hadoop-common/tree/cdh5.8.0-release/hadoop-hdfs-project/hadoop-hdfs/src/main/native/fuse-dfs (this is a directory-tree, look for the files with "impls" in their names for the syscalls supported). Git likely needs more advanced features from its used filesystem that HDFS currently does not offer. You can run git under strace to find out what that syscall is. ... View more