Yeah I agree, it's sort of an open problem, but I guess a bunch of arrows are pointing toward FUSE. Distri uses FUSE and it appears Microsoft's GVFS uses FUSE

Yeah I agree, it's sort of an open problem, but I guess a bunch of arrows are pointing toward FUSE. Distri uses FUSE and it appears Microsoft's GVFS uses FUSE or whatever Windows technology is the equivalent. (My teammates developed Google's equivalent about 14 years ago, using FUSE, so it's something I've used / seen several times.) FUSE requires some kernel support (a module), which git of course doesn't require. That is a barrier, but perhaps not an insurmountable one. Basically I would like to offload all the "network" work to the OS, so applications are free of that logic.