This is awesome. Especially the fact that it's built-in and easy to turn on. Seams like quite a complex solution though. I guess some big company (Microsoft?)

This is awesome. Especially the fact that it's built-in and easy to turn on. Seams like quite a complex solution though. I guess some big company (Microsoft?) implemented it internally for their own use and later tried to move it to upstream git. I wonder if there was some pushback from git maintainers from having this functionality built-in. Also why for Windows they use named pipes when in theory Windows also supports it? (https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-windows/ https://devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/af_unix-comes-to-...) BTW, to the author of this article. It is very good. It was an interesting read. The are some small issues: - "markdown" link didn't get converted to html: "[core.untrackedcache](https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config.txt-coreuntrackedCache https://git-scm.com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config...)" - the link to "philosophy" of Scalar doesn't work: https://github.com/microsoft/git/blob/HEAD/contrib/scalar/docs/philosophy.md https://github.com/microsoft/git/blob/HEAD/contrib/scalar/do...