It's also interesting to note that at this point Microsoft seems to be pivoting away from GitVFS. They've put a lot of collective engineering work in git sparse

It's also interesting to note that at this point Microsoft seems to be pivoting away from GitVFS. They've put a lot of collective engineering work in git sparse clones and git partial clones and the intersection of the two ("sparse cones") and optimizations like git commit graph pushing git itself to better at virtualizing its object store, not touching objects it doesn't need, and better handling just-in-time scenarios for object retrieval when it really does need them.