saeednoursalehi

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   by saeednoursalehi 9y ago

   This was discussed a bit in the comments in Brian Harry's last post on GVFS: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/03/scaling-g... We're building a VFS (Virtual File System) for Git (
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   by saeednoursalehi 9y ago

   Indeed, while 19 seconds for commit is far better than 30 minutes we would have seen without GVFS, it's way too slow to actually feel responsive while you're coding. And in fact, it was sometimes worse than 19 seconds because comm
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   by saeednoursalehi 9y ago

   We don't currently do that sort of predictive prefetching, but it's a feature we've thought a lot about. For now, users can explicitly call "gvfs prefetch" if they want to, or just allow files to be downloaded on de
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   by saeednoursalehi 9y ago

   1) The file system driver is called GvFlt. If it does get included in Windows by default, it'll be to make it easier for products like GVFS, but GvFlt on its own is not usable by end users directly. 2) GVFS is currently only available
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   by saeednoursalehi 9y ago

   Yes we did evaluate LFS. The thing about LFS is that while it does help reduce the clone size, it doesn't reduce the number of files in the repo at all. The biggest bottleneck when working with a repo of this size is that so many of yo