{"id":1815,"date":"2017-05-31T06:45:07","date_gmt":"2017-05-30T22:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2017-05-31T06:45:07","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T22:45:07","slug":"yal9ng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/akams-yal9ng\/","title":{"rendered":"The largest Git repo on the planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called \u201cGit Virtual File System\u201d. \u00a0As 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 and the working directory. \u00a0Rather than download the entire repo and checkout all the files, it dynamically downloads only the portions you need based on what you use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called \u201cGit Virtual File System\u201d. \u00a0As 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":8227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allskus","category-vs4mac"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>It\u2019s been 3 months since I first wrote about our efforts to scale Git to extremely large projects and teams with an effort we called \u201cGit Virtual File System\u201d. \u00a0As 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/vsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}