Microsoft develops, uses open source GIT Virtual File System to build Windows

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Published onMay 24, 2017

published onMay 24, 2017

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Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that their transition to open source has been an undertaking. While the tech giant intends to push the availability of their data on a broader scale through GitHub, Microsoft had admitted difficulty with the sheer scale. Git, after all, wasn’t created for such massive files systems.

Enter the Git Virtual File System, Microsft’s way to maintain the 3.5 million files for Windows. Three months later after the announcement of their transition to the GVFS, nearly 4,000 engineers have transitioned their work over to the new Windows Git making it the largest repository available (viaTechCrunch.)

Originally, the Windows OneCore team held baited breath on March 22nd when 2,000 engineers had completely transitioned to the Git experience. Since then, Windows has slowly been transitioning more and more engineers into the repository, processing some impressive numbers daily.

Adding onto the availability as an open source project and improving behind the scenes, Microsoft also took the opportunity to improve the Git proxies. The transition was so game changing for Windows that their recentblog poststates other tech companies like Google and Facebook may be interested in learning from the new GVFS for future use.

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Radu Tyrsina has been a Windows fan ever since he got his first PC, a Pentium III (a monster at that time).

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