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Microsoft Addresses Pressure From Developer Community, Promises To Rename GVFS
DuroSoft writes: Earlier this week an article ran about how Microsoft's multi-year refusal to rename its terabyte-scale Git extension "GVFS" (Git Virtual File System) had drawn the ire and dismay of the GNOME GVfs project (Gnome Virtual File System) which predates the Microsoft project by years. Thanks to Slashdot coverage and community pressure, Microsoft has now officially promised to rename GVFS to something else, and is asking the community for suggestions for a new name. Is this an official sign that MIcrosoft is finally listening to developers (albeit with a Slashdot-level of negative attention), or are they simply trying to appease the crowd while they are still in the news due to their acquisition of GitHub?
Subject line says it all.
That always works out well.. File McFileyFace? Gitty McGit Face?
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Extended - Cross-platform Terabyte-enabled Filesystem, version 4.
Or Ext4-FS, for short.
Slashdot doesn't have enough readers to cause a website to get slashdotted. I'm curious as to how Slashdot coverage could influence Microsoft to change anything.
Sorry, this is Microsoft we're talking about, amiright?
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In British english its pejorative term similar to bastard. Linus obviously didn't do his homework before christening it.
They could adopt the file system and publish any improvements publicly for free use.
But no. This is the same old Microsoft.
"I'm an egotistical bastard, so I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git."
Even MGVFS or MSGVFS would work - as long as the acronym has their branding on it it's pretty safe it won't be used already. That would allow them to keep the bulk of their code unchanged (since the "Microsoft" part is implicit if not directly called out) without disrupting user support for either system (e.g. they could still call it the Microsoft Git Virtual File System - similar to how they used T-SQL to differentiate from SQL.) Organizational prefixes are pretty standard across the industry.
If users are abandoning GitHub for Sourceforge, management is probably getting overconfident about Slashdot.
We have decided to call it I can't believe it's not GVFS!
They expect that the angry hordes outside the Redmond walls to be carrying torches and pitchforks. The fact that it seemed to be a mixed bag is normally typical for the area. That they were all sporting aprons threw the riot squad off for an instant, until the crowd control tanks rolled in with their sonic cannons.
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.VFS4G but that assumes this will only ever be used for GIT, which is probably a bad way to name something. .GIFTS (GIT/FS) .VITFS (Virtual IT File System) .GIT, .VIT .GIVFS (GIt Virtual File System)
Thanks to Slashdot coverage and community pressure, Microsoft has now officially promised to rename GVFS to something else,
Really? Isn't this a little...arrogant to take the credit about MS change of mind?
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M$VFS
MS suffered the slashdot effect and are begging for mercy. Never underestimate the power of dozens, perhaps hundreds of nerds going to your website.
Trolling is a art,
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Definitely the latter.
Microsoft said they should be judged by developers based upon how they acted "in recent years." Well in recent years, Microsoft behaved exactly like the old "embrace, extend, extinguish" Microsoft of olde by (1) naming a product with a conflicting name to sow confusion, and (2) not changing the name when the conflict was noted.
That leads me to believe that Microsoft is throwing a bone to developers, trying to get them to be less concerned about the github takeover.
Microsoft does not spend billions of dollars on an acquisition because they want to be nice to others...
Where's My Data File System
Virtual Git File System
A quick Google search didn't reveal anything in tech with that acronym.
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Nope traffic to Slashdot has plummeted and is not a factor. Anyway all coverage here is negative so why would anyone bother to read this garbage.
And absolutely no one comments here any more. At all.
MS says: "LOL we plan on owning GNOME and everything else in the future anyway, so sure we'll rename it because we'll be renaming everything later anyway"
GitVFS. Why make it difficult?
The Daddy casts sleep on the Baby. The Baby resists!
Thanks to Slashdot coverage and community pressure, Microsoft has now officially promised to rename GVFS to something else,
I am pretty sure ;) the change is not due to pressure, but due to this proposal:
https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...
GitBENT
I would have FS4DDD File System For Developers, Developers, Developers...
Or perhaps BFS Blamer File System.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Uh, no... Microsoft used an internal version of Perforce called Source Depot for version control prior to the switch to git.
Irony: Agile development has too much intertia to be abandoned now.
Their complete lack of clue is making them being worth more than Alphabet (Google) now. Truly an example of incompetence.
Gitty McGitFace Please
SameCrapDifferentName FS or SCDN-FS
Stop doing this, it gets you a lot more goodwill than rolling it back.
Does it though? At this point, there is enough bad will toward Microsoft that essentially doing nothing is not going to improve their reputation by much, anything they do that contributes to open source is automatically assumed to be the start of embrace, extend, extinguish or just assumed to be a small gesture to keep people off their back. By rolling back, they get positive reporting that they contributed to the open source, then additional positive reporting when they roll back the conflict. At this point relatively minor negative reporting of a name conflict almost rolls off Microsoft's back as noise given the general tenor of reporting on them.
To keep consistent with Microsofts other product names, they should call it "File server." Like how they have "Sql server" as the name for their sql server, and "office" as the name of their office suite, and "Disk Operating System" is the name of their first disk operating system.
This is no small thing, as small things go. Microsoft loves to name their products after the class of the product itself, e.g. Windows, Word.
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Lo, how the mighty have fallen. :-(
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Simple and letting them off gently:
MGVFS for Microsoft Git VFS
or
MSGVFS for MicroSoft Git VFS
No, it's a sign that the GNOME brand is toxic. So toxic that even Microsoft doesn't want their products to be associated with it in any way. Even by mistake.
Might suggest: GTFO, for Git Terrabyte File Operations
Basically this makes git into a centralized version control scheme rather than distributed.
There are limitations of a fully distributed scheme (not well suited for large binary files, for example), but the limitations did at least induce a healthy set of sensibilities in developers using git. Keep large binary blobs out of your build tree, keep things so that each device is a full backup of the critical stuff, etc.
This will mainly cause people who use it on their github repository to have a harder time leaving and/or mirroring to other services... oh wait....
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GVxFS - Git Virtual Filesystem or... Git Virtual eXtensible Filesystem
GitHub Virtual File System
Will $CURRENT_YEAR be the year of the Linux Desktop?
MS is being nicer here than there is any good reason to be. Slashdots and other webshits will not thank them, any more than they have thanked MS for giving away their solution to this problem for free and developing it in the open, with community engagement.
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Yeah, nah. Slashdot level attention is not what it used to be. I mean it's nice to feel like a self important regular member of a large powerful community, but the reality is most companies couldn't give two shits about what goes on here on slashdot, and given the "attention" we give to stupid and mundane things they aren't wrong either.
Git Files Your Self.
I don't believe in karma, I just call it like I see it.
Reasonable troll I guess (as I'm replying to it), but the song you're thinking of is actually called 'Proud Mary' written by a white guy for the (excellent) band Creedence Clearwater Revival.
Call it What The F*** You Want Filesystem.
The name should be obvious. MSVFS. Microsoft Shit Virtual File System.
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