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Yes, how cute they put everything into a thingie designed by Linus, for Linux and it scales way beyond its original use case. There's probably a lesson there s
by gerdesj 9y ago
Yes, how cute they put everything into a thingie designed by Linus, for Linux and it scales way beyond its original use case. There's probably a lesson there somewhere.
- zaat 9y agoGit is great, but no, actually it didn't scale and they had to develop GVFS for it to work. (https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/02/03/announcing-gvfs-git-virtual-file-system/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/02/03/announcin...)
- gerdesj 9y ago"Today, we’re introducing GVFS (Git Virtual File System), which virtualizes the file system beneath your repo and makes it appear as though all the files in your repo are present, but in reality only downloads a file the first time it is opened." No, git works fine - that looks like an Engineer's bodge to account for an inadequacy elsewhere.
- wtetzner 9y agoHuh? It's to avoid having to download the entire massive repo, which probably takes too much time to be a practical part of the developers' work flow.