And for all those who still try to stick to anything older:
https://github.com/Microsoft/gvfs
"GVFS requires Windows 10 Anniversary Update or later."
Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
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But, it seems all large companies (Facebook, Google, Microsoft) are using a mono-repo, and no-one is publicly admitting to using many small repos. If no company is using many small repos for truly massive projects, then it's hard to argue it would be a good idea. Could everyone who has looked at this problem make the wrong choice?
Note that Amazon is not on your list. They did not adopt the mono-repo approach. Their tools have their own advantages and disadvantages, to be sure, but mono-repo is not the only way.
I hadn't heard about Amazon. That's good to know.
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They used to, but now they use Piper which is built on top of mercurial.
Piper is not built on top of Mercurial.
Sorry, you are right, I got it confused with some other work Google was doing to improve the scalability of mercurial. It's not based on perforce though either, appears to be entirely custom technology.
Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#165Did they really need to make a name collision?
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#166It's interesting how all the cool things seem to come from Microsoft these days. I still think we need something better than Git, though. It brought some very cool ideas and the inner workings are reasonably understandable, but the UI is atrociously complicated. And yes, dealing with large files is a very sore point. I'd love to see a second attempt at a distributed version control system. But I applaud MS's initiati…
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Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#167Did they really need to make a name collision? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVfs
It won't affect their profits, so I doubt they care. Compared to googles custom VCS, git vfs is amateur hour turned up to 11.
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Maybe something that has the data models of git but has a more consistent interface? Today on Git Merge there was a presentation about http://gitless.com/ For example one of the goals is to always allow you to switch branches. Stash and stash pop would happen automatically and it would even work if you're in the middle of a merge.
I'm still waiting for a decent GUI that takes full advantage of the simplicity of git's underlying data model. The CLI is okay and I've gotten really good with it, but fundamentally I think git's DAG is something that would be best represented and manipulated graphically. [Reinventing the Git Interface][1] was written almost 3 years ago now and yet to my knowledge nobody's implemented anything quite like that yet. [1…
How does Git Kraken fall short?
Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#169Fucking Microsoft, inbound lawsuit, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GVfs
Seems like it's too hard to do a fucking google search.
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I was actually surprised that there was only as much negative sentiment as there is. Microsoft could cure cancer and the post to HN would be mostly negative. It's tribal. It doesn't even matter what they do at this point. That being said, you can see more and more people getting off the "Microsoft is evil" train. It's super slow and every bone headed thing that Microsoft does resets the needle for lots of people. I'v…
to be fair, i cant say that i care if people are fair to a multinational corporation. whether linux fans are right or not they are still only doing whats best for their bottom line. should a company get a trophy for doing what its customers want?
I don't agree with the sentiment that doing something that benefits lots of people should be dismissed on the grounds that it was mutually beneficial.