The largest Git repo
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The largest Git repo
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Re: The largest Git repo
#2A handful of us from the product team are around for a few hours to discuss if you're interested.
Re: The largest Git repo
#3A handful of us from the product team are around for a few hours to discuss if you're interested.
Sure, a couple of questions:
1. How do you measure "largeness" of a git repo?
2. How are you confident that you have the largest?
3. How much technical debt does that translate to?
Re: The largest Git repo
#4A handful of us from the product team are around for a few hours to discuss if you're interested.
Very cool blog! As I understand, you dynamically fetch a file from the remote git server once for the first time I open the file. Do you do any sort of pre-fetching of files? For example, if a file has an import and uses a few symbols from that file, do you also fetch the imported file beforehand or just fetch it when you access it first time?
Re: The largest Git repo
#5I wonder why Windows is a single repository - Why not split it in separate modules? I can imagine tools like Explorer, Internet Explorer/Edge, Notepad, Wordpad, Paint, etc. all can stay in its own repository. I can imagine you can even further split things up, like a kernel, a group of standard drivers, etc. If that is not already the case (separate repos, that is), are the plans to separate it in the future?
Re: The largest Git repo
#6A handful of us from the product team are around for a few hours to discuss if you're interested.
What's the PR review UI built in?
Re: The largest Git repo
#7A handful of us from the product team are around for a few hours to discuss if you're interested.
The article mentions relying on a windows filesystem driver. Two questions about that:
1) Why include it in default windows? It seems that 99.99% of users would never even know it existed, let alone use it
2) Does that mean GVFS isn't useable on *nix systems? Any plans to make it useable, if so?
Re: The largest Git repo
#8A handful of us from the product team are around for a few hours to discuss if you're interested.
I'm currently investigating using GitLFS for a large repo that has many binary and other large artifacts.
I'm curious, did you experiment with LFS for prior to building GitVFS?
Also, I know that there is an (somewhat) active effort to port GitVFS to Linux, do you know if any of the Git vendors (GitLab and/or GitHub) are planning to support GitVFS in their enterprise products?
Re: The largest Git repo
#9A handful of us from the product team are around for a few hours to discuss if you're interested.
Very cool blog! As I understand, you dynamically fetch a file from the remote git server once for the first time I open the file. Do you do any sort of pre-fetching of files? For example, if a file has an import and uses a few symbols from that file, do you also fetch the imported file beforehand or just fetch it when you access it first time?
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Re: The largest Git repo
#10A handful of us from the product team are around for a few hours to discuss if you're interested.
The article mentions relying on a windows filesystem driver. Two questions about that: 1) Why include it in default windows? It seems that 99.99% of users would never even know it existed, let alone use it 2) Does that mean GVFS isn't useable on *nix systems? Any plans to make it useable, if so?
It's not included in Windows, which is why they have a signed drop of the driver for you to install. Even internally we have to install the driver.
E- oops, missed that line. Cool, wonder if it will show up in more than Git