Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System

> I believe there are plenty bridges between CVS and git already implemented, which also allows you to checkout only part of the CVS tree.

How many of them have you used? I've used a couple, to interact with large code bases on the rough order of 300GB. In my experience they don't work very well, because you have to be hygienic about the commands you run or some part of your Git state gets out of sync with some part of your state for the other source control system. So I gave up on those, and I use something similar to Microsoft's solution at work on a daily basis. It's a real pleasure by comparison, and in spite of that I still call myself a Git fan (about 10 years of heavy Git use now). At work the code base is monolithic and everyone commits directly to trunk (at a ridiculous rate, too).

I've heard horror stories about back when people had to do partial checkouts of the source code, and I'm glad that the tooling I use is better.

The idea of breaking up a repository merely because it is too large reminds me the story of the drunkard looking for his keys under the streetlights. The right tools for the right job, sometimes you change the job to match the tools, and sometimes you change the tools to match the job.

It was stated in Saeed Noursalehi's talk "Scaling Git at Microsoft", held at Git-Merge 2017. Until the conference recordings are available, here is the closest thing to a "source": https://twitter.com/no_more_ducks/status/827479795185364993

> Microsoft, under Nadella has made me not hate Microsoft again, and that's a tall order because I'm over 40.

I'm over 40 as well, and I can honestly say I've never hated Microsoft or Bill Gates - what I hated (hate?) were/are their business practices.

I honestly wish I could (somehow) just get an apology from the company - something like "we were wrong, we're sorry, and we're working to make things right". Instead, it feels instead like a person you thought of as a friend, after they've put you down, did bad things to you directly and behind your back, you dropped them...then years later starting to do nice things toward you and others, trying to get back into your "good graces" - but never once apologizing for their past actions.

I want to see Nadella's and Microsoft's actions in a good light, I want to see them as an unvoiced apology. At the same time, though, if it were a person doing this, I don't know if I could trust their motives, not matter how sincere or enticing it might look like.

If you are anybody else could point me to a video of Nadella or someone else representing Microsoft making an apology regarding their past actions, it would go a long way toward me accepting their present behavior.

It probably won't make me ever install Windows 10, but I will probably see them in a better light.

Just to make sure I have this right, this has to do with the _amount_ of files in their repo and not the _size_ of the files? So projects like git annex and LFS would not help the speed of the git repos?

And full of down votes for the negative comments. This website is very pro successful business, not pro tech.