Large files with Git: LFS and git-annex

Posted Jul 27, 2019 19:25 UTC (Sat) by rweaver6 (guest, #128342)
In reply to: Large files with Git: LFS and git-annex by ralt
Parent article: Large files with Git: LFS and git-annex

I came upon this discussion very late, while investigating GVFS/VFSforGit .

VFSforGit was not designed to solve a large-file problem. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/learn/git/g... .

It was designed to help adapt Git to Microsoft's internal Windows development repository, which was 3.5M files in a zillion directories and branches, 300GB total. Gigantic repository, file size not really the issue. Obviously it will contain some large files as well, but it's not what was limiting their ability to move Windows development to Git.

Whether the file system virtualization provided by VFSforGit *could* be made to help Git also with large files is an interesting question.