This was discussed a bit in the comments in Brian Harry's last post on GVFS: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/03/scaling-git-and-some-back-story/

This was discussed a bit in the comments in Brian Harry's last post on GVFS: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/03/scaling-git-and-some-back-story/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/03/scaling-g... We're building a VFS (Virtual File System) for Git (G) so GVFS was a very natural name and it just kind of stuck once we came up with it.