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Does GitHub support VFS for Git?
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For those who don't know VFS for Git, VFS for Git is helpful to ease managing Git because it has virtualized file system that help managing large size repo, especially for those repo that has size > 2GB.
For more information, please visit the official landing page of VFS for Git: https://vfsforgit.org/
My question is, when will GitHub support VFS for Git? As far as I know, in early 2018, it says it will support but still no further update until now.
- I really hope that this question hasn't been asked before and as far as I know, only Azure DevOps Service (Azure DevOps on cloud) and Azure DevOps Server 2019 (Azure DevOps on-premise) fully supports VFS for Git.
- VFS in this context is Virtualized File System for Git. It is not VFS in Linux. The same virtualized, but this VFS is specific to ease managing large Git repository.
For those who don't know VFS for Git, VFS for Git is helpful to ease managing Git because it has virtualized file system that help managing large size repo, especially for those repo that has size > 2GB.
For more information, please visit the official landing page of VFS for Git: https://vfsforgit.org/
My question is, when will GitHub support VFS for Git? As far as I know, in early 2018, it says it will support but still no further update until now.
Solution
GitHub doesn't support VFS. There are news articles in 2017 saying GVFS and later VFS would be supported by GitHub. As of today, there is no support and no planned support for it.
My sources:
My sources:
- https://github.com/microsoft/VFSForGit/issues/1640
- https://github.community/t/vfsforgit-setup/128184
- https://github.community/t/microsofts-virtual-filesystem-for-git/2092
- The Github public roadmap says nothing related to VFS or anything similar. https://github.com/github/roadmap
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StackExchange DevOps Q#9642, answer score: 1
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