On 2017-02-07, at 9:47 AM, Hugh Gleaves <hugh.glea...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is extremely promising: > > https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2017/02/03/announcing-gvfs-git-virtual-file-system/ ... I detect a sense of humor: "repos of unusual size!", "For example, the Windows codebase has over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size. The Git client was never designed to work with repos with that many files or that much content." -- What's the size of a linux codebase/repository? wait -- *HOW THE BLEEP*? 270 gigabites? For source code?? For just the OS? Or did they put everything from explorer to windows media player in the same repository? ... Yep: "That size is actually the entire OS repo. It includes Windows OneCore, Desktop, Mobile, HoloLens, Xbox, IOT, etc. Plus tools, and other code we ingest from feeds and store in our tree. It’s the full enchilada, not just Desktop." Sounds like they need to consider the type of solution that lets linux devs focus on network driver stuff (only), or video display stuff (only), etc. "... we are open sourcing the client code at https://github.com/Microsoft/gvfs. Feel free to give it a try, but please be aware that it still relies on a pre-release file system driver." This is telling. They are not tying their magic into "git checkout" or anything; they are using OS-specific filesystem magic to tie your use of this new feature to their OS! EEE confirmed like the illumi-naughty :-) --- Entertaining minecraft videos http://YouTube.com/keybounce -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Git for human beings" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to git-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
