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0 pointsjonknee9y ago0 comments

> Seems like with GVFS they are making DVC to be a CVS again. What is the point?

It sounds like they answered that:

> In a repo that is this large, no developer builds the entire source tree. Instead, they typically download the build outputs from the most recent official build, and only build a small portion of the sources related to the area they are modifying. Therefore, even though there are over 3 million files in the repo, a typical developer will only need to download and use about 50-100K of those files.

Source will still be distributed among the developers that touch it. Seems like a decent compromise.

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WorldMaker9y ago

I'm curious to dig a bit further in, but from the blog post I get the impression that they are also still cloning the full commit history, just not the full file trees attached to the commits and definitely not the full worktree of HEAD, leaving those to be lazily fetched. If that is the case, that sounds like an interesting compromise on the git model and something verging on some of the speculative ideas I've seen about using something like IPFS to back git's trees, to the point where maybe you could use something IPFS in tango with this and have a good DVCS solution.

outcoldman9y ago

Based on the protocol https://github.com/Microsoft/gvfs/blob/master/Protocol.md#ge... don't think that "still cloning the full commit history" - this is true.

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