On 2017-02-04 14:07, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote: > On Fri, 3 Feb 2017 09:00:54 -0700 > Warren Young <war...@etr-usa.com> wrote: > >> https://developers.slashdot.org/story/17/02/03/1427213/microsoft-introduces-gvfs-git-virtual-file-system > > Care to elaborate a bit? [---]
Granted, I just skimmed a few seconds, but I got the feeling that the new feature makes it look like it has a bunch of stuff checked out when it really hasn't. And once you try to access files which haven't been fetched before, it fetches them for you. So when you do your initial clone, it only downloads some metadata about what files exist in the repository, but not the contents of them. When you open a file, the vfs will fetch the file for you. Say a project has a doc/ directory which is unrelated to the build process, and there are 200MB worth of documents in there. A person who just wants to build the project probably doesn't want to download all those docs, so they just kick off the build without touching the files in doc/. Like I said, I only skimmed a few seconds so I could be way off, but that's what it looked like to me. If it is what I think it is: With all these indexing tools out there, scanning every file it finds, I wonder how useful this feature really is? -- Kind Regards, Jan _______________________________________________ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users
