VFS for Git virtualizes the file system beneath your Git repository so that Git and all tools see what appears to be a regular working directory.
Virtual File System for Git (VFS for Git), developed by Microsoft, is an extension to the Git version control system.
Feb 3, 2017 ˇ We're introducing GVFS (Git Virtual File System), which virtualizes the file system beneath your repo and makes it appear as though all the files in your repo ...
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Feb 21, 2018 ˇ GVFS virtualizes the file system beneath a Git repo to solve two main problems. Our target use case is the Windows repo, which has over 3 million files in the ...
Git LFS and VFS for Git are solutions for using Git with (large) binary files and large source trees.
Oct 2, 2017 ˇ Any file that has never been written to by the user can be safely ignored by Git, since its contents can always be projected correctly by GVFS.
Sep 23, 2022 ˇ GVFS virtualizes the file system underlying Git repositories on developers' machines, making more efficient use of bandwidth, space and computation.
Feb 3, 2017 ˇ Basically what it does is it only pulls the files you're using from a repo. However the entire repo is virtually mounted. This was needed ...
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Virtual File System for Git
Virtual File System for Git, developed by Microsoft, is an extension to the Git version control system. Wikipedia
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