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Microsoft Planning to Rename GVFS After it Discovered Name Conflict With GNOME Virtual File System

posted by martyb on Wednesday June 06 2018, @05:44PM   Printer-friendly
from the VFS-G? dept.

pvanhoof writes:

Microsoft employee Saeed Noursalehi announced the decision to rename Microsoft's Git Virtual File System (GVFS) due to a conflict with the GNOME Virtual File System (Gvfs) project:

We’ve heard the feedback, so lets use this issue to come up with a new name for this project. As we all know, folks from Microsoft don’t have a rich tradition of picking super awesome names for things. I'm no exception to that pattern, so I was thinking we could all put some sensible suggestions into this issue. I’ll then compile a short list and then we’ll all get to vote on the new name.

Source: https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS/issues/72

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @07:17PM (5 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday June 06 2018, @07:17PM (#689491)

    Here's why: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/02/03/announcing-gvfs-git-virtual-file-system/ [microsoft.com]

    Basically the windows code base is a monolithic mess too large for git to handle*, so this vfs doesn't check out everything but only pulls files down when needed.

    It only requires a few minor protocol extensions, and a modified git. (Or modified as of last February, think they got there extensions upstream already?)

    *In a reasonable time frame, 3+ hours for git status would be a problem...

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  • (Score: 2) by epitaxial on Wednesday June 06 2018, @09:59PM (3 children)

    by epitaxial (3165) on Wednesday June 06 2018, @09:59PM (#689580)

    I was talking about Gnome. Why would it need a filesystem separate of the operating system?

    • (Score: 4, Funny) by stormwyrm on Thursday June 07 2018, @06:18AM (1 child)

      by stormwyrm (717) on Thursday June 07 2018, @06:18AM (#689739) Journal
      Perhaps because they're trying to do a piss-poor job of stealing ostensibly good ideas from Plan 9 [9p.io]?
      --
      Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate.

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @07:39AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @07:39AM (#689759)

      How else do would you make sure to not be interoperable with KDE?

      Heck, if it worked at the OS level or library level, it would work without either of them.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @07:36AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 07 2018, @07:36AM (#689758)

    Thus getting rid of everything that makes GIT better than the competition.