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A fork of Git containing Microsoft-specific patches.

18 mentions on Hacker News by 17 people: 0 stories, 18 comments · first 2017-10-20 · latest 2025-03-17

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  1. …all of these recommendations into a simple set of commands. https://github.com/microsoft/scalar https://github.com/microsoft/git
    comment by bastardoperator · 2025-03-17 · in Going down the rabbit hole of Git's new bundle-URI
  2. …yet! The author is using microsoft's git fork, they've added this new command just this summer: https://github.com/microsoft/git/pull/667
    comment by tux3 · 2024-10-27 · in We shrunk our Javascript monorepo git size
  3. …2020-01-17-bring-your-monorepo-down-to-s... https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/introducing-scalar/ https://github.com/microsoft/git https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/git-partial-clone-now-...
    comment by est31 · 2023-12-11 · in Ask HN: Can we do better than Git for version control?
  4. Their fork https://github.com/microsoft/git
    comment by MikusR · 2023-08-28 · in We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)
  5. That was discontinued (like multiple times under different names). And is moved into a git fork. https://github.com/microsoft/git
    comment by TiredOfLife · 2023-08-28 · in We put half a million files in one Git repository (2022)
  6. …is intended for large repositories (several hundreds of GB). It adds a `git scalar` command, see https://github.com/microsoft/git/blob/HEAD/contrib/scalar/do...
    comment by idoubtit · 2022-11-16 · in Sapling: A new source control system with Git-compatible client
  7. …contents are downloaded on-demand. [0]: https://github.com/git/git/tree/master/contrib/scalar [1]: https://github.com/microsoft/git/blob/vfs-2.37.0/Documentati...
    comment by infogulch · 2022-06-30 · in Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
  8. …by Scalar ( https://github.com/microsoft/scalar ) and again merged into Microsoft's fork of git ( https://github.com/microsoft/git ) It supports neat stuff like partial clone which seems like a pretty big deal.
    comment by dafelst · 2022-06-30 · in Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
  9. …com/docs/git-config#Documentation/git-config... )" - the link to "philosophy" of Scalar doesn't work: https://github.com/microsoft/git/blob/HEAD/contrib/scalar/do...
    comment by mpawelski · 2022-06-29 · in Improve Git monorepo performance with a file system monitor
  10. …then replaced with https://github.com/microsoft/scalar and then into their git fork https://github.com/microsoft/git
    comment by MikusR · 2022-04-13 · in Eden
  11. …contributor to improvements in git for handling large repos after Windows was migrated to git. https://github.com/microsoft/git
    comment by dharmab · 2022-03-24 · in GitHub incident: 2022/03/24
  12. …for merge in back to git proper, though it seems like that is still a work in progress (maybe) as https://github.com/Microsoft/git/ still seems pretty active.
    comment by jamesfinlayson · 2022-01-27 · in The largest Git repo on the planet (2017)
  13. …created the microsoft/git fork linked in the article, and they explain their justification here: https://github.com/microsoft/git#why-is-this-fork-needed > Well, because Git is a distributed version control system, each Git repository has…
    comment by anon9001 · 2021-11-11 · in Make your monorepo feel small with Git’s sparse index
  14. …git, so what is left now is a thin shell around git features in the form of MS's forked git binary: https://github.com/microsoft/git
    comment by mikevm · 2021-08-22 · in Gitfs: Version Controlled File System
  15. …GVFS, we added an option to skip this check, providing a significant speedup to users fetch times: https://github.com/Microsoft/git/commit/9616c7da3141f539a425...
    comment by stolee · 2018-07-18 · in Supercharging the Git Commit Graph IV: Bloom Filters
  16. …a fork of Git with "microsoft specific patches" [1]. [0] - https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS [1] - https://github.com/Microsoft/git (edit: formatting)
    comment by bjpbakker · 2018-06-04 · in What is wrong with Microsoft buying GitHub
  17. …changes to Git to allow it to work well on a GVFS-backed repo, and those sources are available at https://github.com/Microsoft/git . For the record as far as I understand GVFS the article is correctly using git vs Github.
    comment by hdhzy · 2017-11-17 · in Microsoft and GitHub team up to take Git virtual file system to macOS, Linux
  18. …did a lot of work to make git work on huge, complicated projects (for Windows) and shared it. ( https://github.com/Microsoft/git ) Meanwhile, Google is...well, where are they? They never did give us that Linux Google Drive client they…
    comment by rainbowmverse · 2017-10-20 · in Google's CEO is increasingly boxed in by regulators, critics, and employees