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Microsoft Introduces GVFS (Git Virtual File System) (microsoft.com)
Saeed Noursalehi, principal program manager at Microsoft, writes on a blog post: We've been working hard on a solution that allows the Git client to scale to repos of any size. Today, we're introducing GVFS (Git Virtual File System), which virtualizes the file system beneath your repo and makes it appear as though all the files in your repo are present, but in reality only downloads a file the first time it is opened. GVFS also actively manages how much of the repo Git has to consider in operations like checkout and status, since any file that has not been hydrated can be safely ignored. And because we do this all at the file system level, your IDEs and build tools don't need to change at all! In a repo that is this large, no developer builds the entire source tree. Instead, they typically download the build outputs from the most recent official build, and only build a small portion of the sources related to the area they are modifying. Therefore, even though there are over 3 million files in the repo, a typical developer will only need to download and use about 50-100K of those files. With GVFS, this means that they now have a Git experience that is much more manageable: clone now takes a few minutes instead of 12+ hours, checkout takes 30 seconds instead of 2-3 hours, and status takes 4-5 seconds instead of 10 minutes. And we're working on making those numbers even better.
Might as well elect Donald Trump as president while you're at it.
That is really fucking cool! This is going to revolutionize how software development is done. Imagine being able to use git like an efficient file system without the overhead of downloading everything all the time. I am willing to bet that within a year or two the majority of git projects will be built this way, even further eroding Linux's popularity with developers. I am already seeing most of my colleagues join me in dumping Linux and switching over to Windows 10 with the Linux subsystem so it is pretty much inevitable. THIS, this is what real innovation looks like.
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Billion, you fucking moron. lurn 2 rite.
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I would propose that if a repo is that large, it should probably be broken into several smaller projects. Then you build what you need.
all right, you've clearly nominated yourself to untangling a 1TB repository. get on it bud.
Wait a second.
MS just invented an efficient way to checkout the Linux kernel on windows, so you can get the kernel sources, compile it, and then run Linux and ditch Windows ?
That's great !!
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