Ever wonder how Microsoft stores the source code for Windows? Evidently, it’s all been stored in Git. Today, Microsoft announced that it has released the Git Virtual File System, which allows repositories and clients to handle massive repositories.
As an example, the Windows repository contains 3.5 million files and is more than 270GB in size. That’s far larger than the 2GB size limit most repositories face. After 2 GB, performance slows to a crawl. While GitHub released large file support for Git last year, Microsoft still encountered size-based issues.
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