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Wilfred Hughes

Jul 17, 2017 at 18:53

Windows source code now lives in git, and it has some incredible scaling challenges. 300GiB of files in HEAD! https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/05/24/the-largest-git-repo-on-the-planet/

The largest Git repo on the planet

The largest Git repo on the planet

It’s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called “Git Virtual File System”. As a reminder, GVFS, together with a set of enhancements to Git, enables Git to scale to VERY large repos by virtualizing both the .git folder […]