We Put Half a Million Files in One Git Repository, Here's What We Learned (2022)

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  • git

    A fork of Git containing Microsoft-specific patches. (by microsoft)

  • That was discontinued (like multiple times under different names). And is moved into a git fork. https://github.com/microsoft/git

  • VFSForGit

    Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale

  • VFS for Git is still Open Source: https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit

    Microsoft's blog posts have indicated a move to use something as close to off-the-shelf git as possible, though. They say they've stopped using VFS much and are instead more often relying on sparse checkouts. They've upstreamed a lot of patches into git itself, and maintain their own git fork but the fork distance is generally shrinking as those patches upstream.

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  • git-lfs

    Git extension for versioning large files

  • trace2-flamechart

    Generate flamegraphs from Git trace2 events

  • Jaeger

    There's a couple of other tools like https://github.com/derrickstolee/trace2-flamechart

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