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WSL
scalar | WSL | |
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19 | 407 | |
1,341 | 16,753 | |
3.5% | 1.2% | |
0.0 | 8.6 | |
over 1 year ago | 7 days ago | |
C# | PowerShell | |
MIT License | MIT License |
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Debian Git Monorepo
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
[2] - https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
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Serving a Website from a Git Repo Without Cloning It
Congratulations! That means you basically figured out how the clone procedure works and found a way to do so just in a partial way (also in an unsafe way). But it is a cool idea, nonetheless.
Also check out the Scalar [1] project and its predecessor, GVFS [2], both from Microsoft to manage their monorepo via a VFS layer.
[1]: https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
[2]: https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit
- Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?
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Software for managing config files
You mean like VFSforGit? Or the successor for that called Scalar? This has been a solved problem. Microsoft moved their entire Windows codebase to git. There have been a ton of huge improvements to performance as a result of that. And the above two plugins are easily better ways to deal with what you're referring to without resulting to dead tech.
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WebKit Migrates from Subversion to GitHub
I was just looking at Microsoft's git VFS (https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit), which is deprecated and now points to Scalar (https://github.com/microsoft/scalar), which is also deprecated? What's Microsoft's story with git now? Is there still a virtual file system involved?
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An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools
Microsoft has/had a mono-repo based on the Git Virtual Filesystem, but future efforts have apparently moved towards the use of Scalar: https://github.com/microsoft/scalar
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Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
This has been superceded by Scalar (https://github.com/microsoft/scalar) and again merged into Microsoft's fork of git (https://github.com/microsoft/git)
It supports neat stuff like partial clone which seems like a pretty big deal.
- Haberdasher: Git-like version control for huge repos
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We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here’s What We Learned
As mentioned in the blog "we are moving towards providing a known version of git", probably Microsoft Git which includes the scalar command but also upstreams many of the optimizations to git core https://github.com/microsoft/scalar#why-did-scalar-move
disclaimer: canva staff working on source control
- Only Microsoft can give open source the gift of NTFS
WSL
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GoboLinux
It absolutely 100% can be true.
As an example: Windows Services for Linux 2 used a special init daemon to interact with the host OS.
That meant no systemd. That meant that the `systemctl` program wasn't there.
This baffled legions, armies, of wannabe sysadmins.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/55579342/why-systemd-is-...
https://superuser.com/questions/1785697/systemd-in-wsl-on-wi...
https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/9477
https://askubuntu.com/questions/1132230/unable-to-run-any-sy...
People on the whole have no idea how this stuff works, and they just copy magic incantations from StackOverflow to get stuff to happen. If that doesn't work, then this OS is broken. The end.
For these guys, WSL was broken.
Result:
MS hired Lennart Poettering.
https://www.theregister.com/2022/07/07/lennart_poettering_re...
He "fixed" it. Systemd now works in WSL2. All those guides for noobs now work. Everyone is happy.
In a world where tools like Flatpak and Snap are proliferating and it's driving deep divisions between Linux distros, if you think the average person struggling with Linux is going to use `ldd` to work out where the dependencies for something live, I'm afraid you are a deep guru who lives on a different plane of existence.
We now have widely-used packaging systems which simply embed an apps entire dependency tree into a package to avoid people having to work out the difference between `apt` and `rpm`. Thousands of terabytes of disk are being burned to make this stuff go away.
Yes, this is too hard. Way too hard.
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Why Linux utilities tend to run poorly on Windows
Better source: https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425...
- Weird graphical glitch/problem in Ubuntu WSLg (OpenGL)
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RamRamRamEveryoneSleepingOnDocker
One of the bugs where on the Docker side. As I have said, there have been several since release with a lot of impact period overlap. The latest and greatest is not resolved.
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Laravel dev in Windows - Laragon vs Docker?
It's the issue of abysmal I/O performance in communication between the mounted WSL2 virtual hard disk and Windows mounts inside the WSL2 distro.
- WSL freeze seems fixed in 2.0.12
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What's the right way to open files in the system's default program from Ubuntu 22.04 in WSL 2 please?
I found this github page and I was able to reproduce this from the answer
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Ask HN: Best Docker open source alternative?
* Docker engine and not Docker Desktop in a VM. WSL2 works well after some configuration: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/6655#issuecomment-11...
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Broadcom to Cut Almost 1,300 VMware Jobs in California After Takeover
Seems to more of a Defender issue than a WSL one, see https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/issues/8995
After adding exclusions for the fsnotifier-wsl process and and both variants of the WSL distro path my disk performance was improved.
Adding the idea64.exe process also helped since I was trying to run IntelliJ against projects inside WSL.
- Bricked WSL 2 after 2.0.9 / Windows 10
What are some alternatives?
Git - Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
wslg - Enabling the Windows Subsystem for Linux to include support for Wayland and X server related scenarios
git-lfs - Git extension for versioning large files
genie - A quick way into a systemd "bottle" for WSL
VFSForGit - Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale
Scoop - A command-line installer for Windows.
devops-tools - A mixed collection of tools supporting software development, CICD and deployment, etc.
Single-GPU-Passthrough
EdenSCM - A Scalable, User-Friendly Source Control System. [Moved to: https://github.com/facebook/sapling]
setup-msys2 - GitHub Action to setup MSYS2
git - GitGitGadget's Git fork. Open Pull Requests here to submit them to the Git mailing list
mkcert - A simple zero-config tool to make locally trusted development certificates with any names you'd like.