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More on GVFS

After watching a couple of days of GVFS conversation, I want to add a few things. What problems are we solving? GVFS (and the related Git optimizations) really solves 4 distinct problems: A large number of files – Git doesn’t naturally work well with hundreds of thousands or millions of files in your working set…

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Scaling Git, and some back story

A couple of years ago, Microsoft made the decision to begin a multi-year investment in revitalizing our engineering system across the company. We are a big company with tons of teams – each with their own products, priorities, processes and tools. There are some “common” tools but also a lot of diversity – with VERY…

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Racket v6.8

_posted by Vincent St-Amour_ Racket version 6.8 is now available from http://racket-lang.org/ Racket sports a new logo, courtesy of Matthew Butterick. MacBook Pro laptops with touch bars are supported. Support for FreeBSD on PowerPC. ...