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Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

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Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

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Post by justinmk »

testUser69 wrote: post #2

>the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size So instead of cleaning up this mess they decided to "fix" git? With this type of thing going on at MS it's no wonder Windows 10 is more buggy than my Linux box. Also why would they keep the entirety of "Windows" in one git repo? The only reason I can think to do this is if very large parts of the ecosystem are so tightly coupled together, tha…

GVFS, or something like it, is an important development for git. Facebook already implemented something similar for Mercurial[1]. At a glance, GVFS hints that git has become more extensible than it used to be.

The merits of a "monorepo" have been hashed out previously[2], it's more nuanced than "lol, M$".

[1] https://code.facebook.com/posts/218678814984400/scaling-merc...

[2] http://danluu.com/monorepo/

Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

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Post by therealmarv »

testUser69 wrote: post #2

>the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size So instead of cleaning up this mess they decided to "fix" git? With this type of thing going on at MS it's no wonder Windows 10 is more buggy than my Linux box. Also why would they keep the entirety of "Windows" in one git repo? The only reason I can think to do this is if very large parts of the ecosystem are so tightly coupled together, tha…

It seems you have no clue how very big companies work with source code management. Google e.g. is using for the most part only ONE single repository for their source code. So would you also say the same about them?

Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

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Post by daigoba66 »

The article doesn't directly say it, but are they migrating the Windows source code repository to git? That seems like a big deal.

I seem to recall that Microsoft has previously used a custom Perforce "fork" for their larger code bases (Windows, Server, Office, etc.).

Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

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Post by becarefulyo »

testUser69 wrote: post #2

>the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size So instead of cleaning up this mess they decided to "fix" git? With this type of thing going on at MS it's no wonder Windows 10 is more buggy than my Linux box. Also why would they keep the entirety of "Windows" in one git repo? The only reason I can think to do this is if very large parts of the ecosystem are so tightly coupled together, tha…

It works fine. We have really good code search tools.

The numbers include test code, utilities, two entire web browsers, UI frameworks, etc.

Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

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Post by BugsJustFindMe »

oneplane wrote: post #3
testUser69 wrote: post #2

>the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size So instead of cleaning up this mess they decided to "fix" git? With this type of thing going on at MS it's no wonder Windows 10 is more buggy than my Linux box. Also why would they keep the entirety of "Windows" in one git repo? The only reason I can think to do this is if very large parts of the ecosystem are so tightly coupled together, tha…

This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the article. There is no reason for any Git repo to be that big. It's not a bug in Git, but more like a reasonable limit... if your project exceeds it, you're doing it wrong. I'm also curious as to how they used to do it without git, maybe using TFS? I wonder what the timings on that were. Anyway, I don't think GVFS is the way to go, and I hope that it either doesn't ge…

Ah, yes. The mating call of the wild elite computer expert.

Microsoft: "We, only one of most technologically advanced companies with only the 2nd or 3rd highest market cap of any public company on the planet depending on the day, had a problem with infrastructure trying to manage possibly the largest software project that anyone has ever made. And then we solved it."

You: "Stop doing what you're doing and pay attention to meeeeeeeeeeee."

Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

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Post by [deleted] »

oneplane wrote: post #3
testUser69 wrote: post #2

>the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size So instead of cleaning up this mess they decided to "fix" git? With this type of thing going on at MS it's no wonder Windows 10 is more buggy than my Linux box. Also why would they keep the entirety of "Windows" in one git repo? The only reason I can think to do this is if very large parts of the ecosystem are so tightly coupled together, tha…

This is exactly what I was thinking when I read the article. There is no reason for any Git repo to be that big. It's not a bug in Git, but more like a reasonable limit... if your project exceeds it, you're doing it wrong. I'm also curious as to how they used to do it without git, maybe using TFS? I wonder what the timings on that were. Anyway, I don't think GVFS is the way to go, and I hope that it either doesn't ge…

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Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

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Post by koolba »

maybe_someday wrote: post #6
testUser69 wrote: post #2

>the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size So instead of cleaning up this mess they decided to "fix" git? With this type of thing going on at MS it's no wonder Windows 10 is more buggy than my Linux box. Also why would they keep the entirety of "Windows" in one git repo? The only reason I can think to do this is if very large parts of the ecosystem are so tightly coupled together, tha…

Hmmm.. Both Facebook and Google have giant monolithic repositories and use trunk based development and i'm guessing you wouldn't say they do it wrong. So not surprised Windows does

This is the Internet. There's always someone who'll say "they're doing it wrong!"

Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

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Post by wslh »

dewyatt wrote: post #5

I think they could have picked a name that doesn't conflict with GNOME Virtual File System (GVfs).

They used to choose very bad names like .NET or COM [1] (this predates Internet) makes searching information very tricky. MSDN doesn't help.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Component_Object_Model

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