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by ethomson 9y ago
It's not impossible but it too is impractical for performance reasons. Providers that run git core repack repositories regularly because packfiles are efficient; loose objects are horribly inefficient - even on the local filesystem.
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by ethomson 9y ago
GitHub only shares objects among forks. Source: I used to work on GitHub's Git Infrastructure team, but this is publicly available information. You can read about their architecture in their discussions of Spokes, which replicates rep
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by ethomson 9y ago
Can you clarify what you mean by "more close to the online service"? We update TFS with the bits from VSTS pretty regularly; are you looking for a faster cadence or am I misunderstanding what you're saying?
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by ethomson 9y ago
I'm not the right person to ask about Windows organization, I'm afraid. But I will say that the nice thing about moving to Git is that its lightweight branching makes refactoring much easier.
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by ethomson 9y ago
I agree that these sentences gloss over the details - and rightly so: it's an article in Ars, after all, not a journal article. We (Microsoft) have published a lot[1] about our journey to put Enterprise-scale codebases, like the Windo
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by ethomson 9y ago
We were using a mix of tools throughout Microsoft: several teams were using Source Depot, which is an internally developed centralized version control system. It was built to handle large teams, like Windows and Office. It was the precurs
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by ethomson 9y ago
Microsoft PM here. It's important to note that Hg also had similar constraints. So Facebook was in a position of having to fix Git or Hg to suit their needs. It turns out that for a variety of factors, Hg was the better choice for t
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by ethomson 9y ago
PM at Microsoft here. TFVC is completely different, though. (To quickly clarify nomenclature: TFVC is "Team Foundation Version Control", the name of the centralized version control system in TFS and VSTS, which are our on-premise
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by ethomson 9y ago
PM for Git at Microsoft here. We explored splitting it up. It's a 300GB repository and it's been a monorepo for the last 20 years. Splitting it up logically would take a lot of time (to put it mildly) and development would stal
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by ethomson 9y ago
git-lfs supports locking, beginning in 2.0.
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by ethomson 9y ago
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services | Software Engineers, Engineering Managers and Program Managers | Redmond, WA and Durham, NC | Onsite Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provides software development teams with version control (Git and
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by ethomson 9y ago
It's not security through obscurity. It's defense in depth.
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by ethomson 9y ago
As in a tree that points to itself? You cannot, since a tree would have to point to its own SHA1. So this would require you to know your own tree's SHA and embed it in the tree.
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by ethomson 9y ago
Yes, hosting providers need rate limiting mitigations in place. GitHub's is called gitmon (at least unofficially), and you can learn more at https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=f7ecUqHxD7o Visual Studio Team Services has a
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by ethomson 9y ago
No - although I am an aging unix neckbeard, I do not assume that you _need_ that to be successful.
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by ethomson 9y ago
Yes, this is true to an extent. But price is one of many factors that go into GitHub's design decisions for infrastructure planning. (I used to work on the Git Infrastructure team at GitHub, which is responsible for exactly this.) N
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by ethomson 9y ago
Sorry to hear that. I'm not a recruiter, but I'm told that the fall recruiting season is a particularly busy time for them and we receive a very high volume of applications and resumes and that it's not inappropriate to foll
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by ethomson 9y ago
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services | Software Engineers, Engineering Managers and Program Managers | Redmond, WA and Durham, NC | Onsite Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provides software development teams with version control (Git and
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by ethomson 9y ago
Length was, maybe. Reserved device names (like CON, AUX, etc) are still reserved.
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by ethomson 9y ago
Yes, I'm very aware of our license. It allows people to link it in their non-free, proprietary software without any vitality on that proprietary software. It still requires them to make the source for the version of libgit2 that they
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by ethomson 9y ago
I'm surprised to see you downvoted here. As a maintainer of an open source project, libgit2, which is GPL licensed and used by Apple, I am rather frustrated by Apple's behavior. The source for libgit2 itself is not present on the
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by ethomson 9y ago
Visual Studio Team Services. I'm not sure what you mean by "massive" but VSTS is the only service that handles the truly massive projects, like Microsoft Windows. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry&#x2F
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by ethomson 9y ago
The post explains this: they don't. Standing water exhibits the same behavior as reflectiveless flat surfaces. When they fly over a space and "see" nothing beneath them, they interpret this emptiness as a flat, smooth body o
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by ethomson 9y ago
If you're concerned about performance, Visual Studio Team Services hosts the world's largest Git repositories. (The largest being Windows itself.) And has to stay performant while doing it. Indeed, most people don't need to
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by ethomson 9y ago
Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services | Software Engineers, Engineering Managers and Program Managers | Redmond, WA and Durham, NC | Onsite Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) provides software development teams with version control (Git and
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Letter Home from Camp Wolfram(wired.com)
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by ethomson 9y ago
I can't recommend Patrick Smith's writing highly enough. I used to be somewhat uncomfortable when flying: the lack of control was extremely unsettling. But after reading Ask the Pilot for a while, I came to understand and respec
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by ethomson 9y ago
I'm not familiar with any that exec ssh. Certainly libgit2 does not, nor do the language bindings on top of it. So libgit2, LibGit2Sharp, Rugged, Jagged, NodeGit are unaffected.
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Postmortem: Service Outage for Visual Studio Team Services on 4 August 2017(blogs.msdn.microsoft.com)
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by ethomson 9y ago
Not just for Mac, there's a Git Tower for Windows as well.

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