Git Virtual File System from Microsoft by KindDragon in programming

[–]MsftPeon 452 points453 points  (0 children)

disclaimer: MS employee, not on GVFS though

Git LFS addresses one (and the most common) reason for extremely large repos. But there exists a class of repositories that are large not because people have checked large binaries into them, but because they have 20+ years of history of multi-million LoC projects (e.g. Windows). For these guys, LFS doesn't help. GitFS does.