Re: [RFC v1] Add virtual file system settings and hook proc

> On Sun, Nov 4, 2018 at 10:01 PM brian m. carlson
> <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 07:34:01AM +0100, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 31, 2018 at 9:53 PM Ben Peart <peartben@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> It's more than a dynamic sparse-checkout because the same list is also
>>>> used to exclude any file/folder not listed.  That means any file not
>>>> listed won't ever be updated by git (like in 'checkout' for example) so
>>>> 'stale' files could be left in the working directory.  It also means git
>>>> won't find new/untracked files unless they are specifically added to the
>>>> list.
>>>
>>> OK. I'm not at all interested in carrying maintenance burden for some
>>> software behind closed doors. I could see values in having a more
>>> flexible sparse checkout but this now seems like very tightly designed
>>> for GVFS. So unless there's another use case (preferably open source)
>>> for this, I don't think this should be added in git.git.
>>
>> I should point out that VFS for Git is an open-source project and will
>> likely have larger use than just at Microsoft.  There are both Windows
>> and Mac clients and there are plans for a Linux client as well.
>> Ideally, it would work with an unmodified upstream Git, which is (I
>> assume) why Ben is sending this series.
> 
> Ah I didn't know that. Thank you. I'll have to look at this GVFS some time then.
> 
> If we're going to support GVFS though, I think there should be a big
> (RFC perhaps) series that includes everything to at least give an
> overview what the end game looks like. Then it could be split up into
> smaller series.
>