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It's not only Windows that uses Git at Microsoft, but Sharepoint and Office (which includes the on-prem version of SharePoint). In terms of repo size Windows an
by redleader55 3y ago
It's not only Windows that uses Git at Microsoft, but Sharepoint and Office (which includes the on-prem version of SharePoint). In terms of repo size Windows and Office are similar. I was part of the team that migrated Sharepoint from a Perforce clone to Git and helped build the tooling to allow Office to move as well. VFS for Git [1] and Scalar [2] are really good pieces of software.
[1] - https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit
[2] - https://github.com/microsoft/scalar https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
- silverwind 3y agoI hope one of these "large file/many files" extensions becomes part of git core eventually. They are too much of a hassle to deal with and many servers don't even support them.