r/git • u/noobdainsane • 3d ago

survey VFS for Git for Linux?

So I was learning Git and found out that a Git repository essentially contains two copies of the repository contents. One is from the first commit of every object and other from the working tree.

This can be made more space efficient by working with files from Git's database itself as if they were in our working tree. Modifying files create a new local copy in the working tree. They can be deleted after committing.

This is what the VFS for Git project is. But, it is for Windows only. Why is there no equivalent tool than can run on Linux, unless I am missing it?

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u/hawkprime 3d ago

Looks like it got deprecated for Scalar and then Scalar got deprecated for Microsoft git. They seem to be working more to integrate with git's objects not to mention it works with Mac and Linux. Personally have not tried it.

https://github.com/microsoft/git