Microsoft Announces Git Virtual File-System (GVFS)

[boxie]

tell me bug77 why are you so butthurt when MS does something good? are you always this negative? have you tried being nice and thinking "Hey some devs just made something better"

[marek]

Good stuff. Since it's open source, MS can't control any of the forks. So whether MS wrote it or not is irrelevant, but I'm glad they are opensource-friendly now.

[bitman]

And thats how you fix horrible git performance on windows. Because doing it properly probably not really possible.

[bvbfan]

What idiot decided that putting 3.5M files into a single repo is a good idea?

M$

[chuckula]

Interesting to see the butthurt losers like bug77 whining and screaming about open source software that appears to be solving some real-world problems.
I'm sure he has an ego the size of a small (or large) continent but has probably never actually even used git, much less worked on a real software project.

But go ahead and insult open source software developers who actually did something while you sit on your ass pretending to be better than everyone else.
Incidentally, since this update is basically using principles that are similar to demand paging and copy-on-write (on read in this case), please stop using any operating system or filesystem that uses those concepts since your ego has declared them to be beneath you. Nobody here will miss you.

[bug77]

Interesting to see the butthurt losers like bug77 whining and screaming about open source software that appears to be solving some real-world problems.
I'm sure he has an ego the size of a small (or large) continent but has probably never actually even used git, much less worked on a real software project.

But go ahead and insult open source software developers who actually did something while you sit on your ass pretending to be better than everyone else.
Incidentally, since this update is basically using principles that are similar to demand paging and copy-on-write (on read in this case), please stop using any operating system or filesystem that uses those concepts since your ego has declared them to be beneath you. Nobody here will miss you.

It's precisely because I use git that I appreciate being able to compare a file to any of its versions at any time. And I like it this way.
I did not make this about MS, I don't care who wrote the code, this just looks like a bad idea.

And about "real-world problems", if git could handle the linux kernel for all these years, I can't imagine there's a significant number of projects it won't handle.

[zeehio]

not so, you don't *need* to have every single revision ever, and I can definitely understand the need for it.

What would be the advantage compared to this?

 
 git clone --depth 1 path/to/repo.git

[ImNtReal]

The name might get a bit confusing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVfs

[Serafean]

Doesn't this kind of break the "distributed" premise of git? If the one server dies, you loose your data, like it was before decentralized SCMs...

[bug77]

Doesn't this kind of break the "distributed" premise of git? If the one server dies, you loose your data, like it was before decentralized SCMs...

Who cares? You get faster clones :P