Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
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Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
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Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#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, that they depend on each other for compilation. I know it's not UNIX but any basic programming course teaches you to decouple your programs (and the parts of your programs) to make them not dependent on each other. Is the developer of explorer.exe expected to clone the whole Windows repo? Do they have no idea what they're doing? If they seriously have one monolithic code base then that really explains a lot.
Sounds like it's amateur hour turned up to 11 over at Microsoft.
Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#3>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 get accepted or doesn't play a role outside of Windows. It's good to see more Git usage, but hacking away instead of fixing the problematic project seems somewhat idiotic. I can imagine other tools having problems with a single project that size, are they going to hack those as well?
Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#4>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's a normal practice, google does it also:
"The Google codebase includes approximately one billion files and has a history of approximately 35 million commits spanning Google's entire 18-year existence. The repository contains 86TBa of data, including approximately two billion lines of code in nine million unique source files." [1]
[1] http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2016/7/204032-why-google-store...
Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#5I think they could have picked a name that doesn't conflict with GNOME Virtual File System (GVfs).
Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#6>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
Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#7>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…
"640k is enough for anyone."
Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#8>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…
I wouldn't do that way either, but they are not the only one doing that. Google and facebook have a similar approach:
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-Facebook-have-so-much-of-thei...
https://www.wired.com/2015/09/google-2-billion-lines-codeand...
They may know something we don't :)
Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#9>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…
I guess Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Twitter are all run by amateurs, to name a few.
Re: Announcing GVFS: Git Virtual File System
#10>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 aint easy to transition from a significant code base in centralized source control to distributed over night, yet the benefits of distributed are desired.