On 6 Feb 2017, at 14:08, Todd Mancini wrote: > It's cool, if you need it (i.e. your repo is really massive).
For me it is a nice alternative to handle some of limits of git submodules. > Note that it > means that you need to be online to do a number of operations that you once > thought were local, unless you do some good planning for all of the files > you may need to get your work done offline. > > Windows Filter Drivers, which this is built upon, are cool -- you can add > all sorts of tricks to the file system. (FUSE in Linux is very similar.) > > Our model of Spaces + multiple Codebases hopefully gives users a better > alternative -- a logical collection of multiple repos, no OS tricks > required. :) Not really comparable. monorepos have really nice advantages over going completely crazy having tons of multiple repos - and well balanced set of standalone repos have other advantages over monorepos. If something like git vfs had been around earlier I think we would have a much saner balance of repos. /max > > On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 11:08 PM, Max Rydahl Andersen <mande...@redhat.com> > wrote: > >> >> https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2017/02/03/ >> announcing-gvfs-git-virtual-file-system/ >> >> If this works then that is amazing and I hope it gets adoption fast and >> can be used outside just windows. >> >> Being able to checkout/clone subparts of a git Repo incrementally is super >> useful and could solve or reduce a lot of workflow issues created by Gits >> limits. >> >> /max >> http://about.me/maxandersen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Devtools mailing list >> Devtools@redhat.com >> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/devtools >> /max http://about.me/maxandersen _______________________________________________ Devtools mailing list Devtools@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/devtools
