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> some VSS-based thing I think

It was Source Depot, a fork of Perforce.

However, IIRC they moved to a git based Git Virtual File System for windows development a few years back..

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>Git Virtual File System

Hows that coming along, I wonder.

It was released, and was used for the Windows repo. Search "vfs for git" - it's open source.

Then macOS removed kernel extensions, so they came up with a different approach and released that too. Search "scalar" to see it.

It may be useful to note that "scalar" is mostly (albeit not entirely) a git (auto) configuration tool using (now) built-in tools like sparse checkouts and sparse checkout "cones", it shows how much of Microsoft's improvements have made it upstream into git itself. (And it is a stated goal of "scalar" that everything eventually should be.)

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