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Comment by jiggawatts | Hacker News Reader

How does this compare with Microsoft's "VFS for Git"?

VFS for Git was superceded by https://github.com/microsoft/scalar and then many of the features were merged into mainline git, so what is left now is a thin shell around git features in the form of MS's forked git binary: https://github.com/microsoft/git

VFS for Git solves the issue of having gigantic bloated monorepos used by thousands of devs, making sure user efficiently downloads only what is needed for him.

This is basically Git checkout with an autocommit feature, making sure your grandma will be able to do check grammar in your thesis without teaching her how to Git.

Clicking the link, I was kinda hoping it was some version of VFS for Git, but for operating systems other than Windows. Kinda bummed that it wasn't, this seems kinda pointless. Microsoft is (allegedly) working on macOS and Linux drivers for that thing, but it's been a while now. I hope it's going to become an actual thing one day, it's such a cool idea.

I think the main difference is that this is for Linux and MacOS and not for Windows

The sentence at the very top of the GH repo reads

> Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale

Does it sound any similar to what this particular project tries to tackle?

No. VFS is for /the underlying git/ and not for the user (aka, the .git folder). The linked project is for the end user.

That was a rhetorical question.

I usually understand that people read mostly titles. It was a bit funny though that someone likely managed not to read both the posted site and a link in a comment they replied to.

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