Yes we did evaluate LFS. The thing about LFS is that while it does help reduce the clone size, it doesn't reduce the number of files in the repo at all. The big

Yes we did evaluate LFS. The thing about LFS is that while it does help reduce the clone size, it doesn't reduce the number of files in the repo at all. The biggest bottleneck when working with a repo of this size is that so many of your local git operations are linear on the number of files. One of the main values of GVFS is that it allows Git to only consider the files you're actually working with, not all 3M+ files in the repo.