This is one of the most exciting Windows features in ages: https://www.visualstudio.com/learn/gvfs-architecture/ …https://twitter.com/bionicbeagle/status/985572896142708737 …
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic
So wait, they're talking about Git specifically here, but did they just ship an equivalent of FUSE for Windows? That's pretty cool!
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Replying to @icculus @TimSweeneyEpic
Yeah and it seems pretty cool since they allow you to also augment an underlying file system (NTFS) with virtual items etc. I've not yet actually looked at the projlib.dll API though - haven't yet been able to dig up an SDK header for it...
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How would you gamedevs leverage that new feature exactly?
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There are lots of applications - sparse syncs of code, assets, deep integration with build systems etc
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Replying to @bionicbeagle @gpakosz and
a while ago I'd wanted key/value attributes added to files system items, this would be very useful for asset pipelines and tools, but as long as this doesn't work on all platforms and doesn't have versioning system support it's kinda useless IMHO (next best thing is .meta files)
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Replying to @FlohOfWoe @bionicbeagle and
NTFS has a ton of brittle features like that. Sparse files are a famous example. It actually also has attributes, but the problem with all kinds of implicit things like that is that your end-to-end data path has to preserve it.
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Replying to @pervognsen @FlohOfWoe and
Source control systems, compression/archiving utilities, even something as simple as a file copy if implemented as a byte by byte copy (and over a foreign transport there's no choice short of out of band metadata that is reconstituted on the receiving end) loses metadata.
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Replying to @pervognsen @FlohOfWoe and
So, I think features like this are basically massive footguns unless deployed in extremely controlled, restricted settings.
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I love the idea of just-in-time Git/Perforce that downloads on just the data that’s needed. Let me map all of GutHub into directory and start browsing it! It’s fine if it only supports simple POSIX file features like Git, and not all the NTFS craziness.
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Replying to @TimSweeneyEpic @pervognsen and
Google has this internally with "CitC" and it's basically the best thing ever. But it uses a Perforce-like model with global monotonic change numbers. Might be tricky to use a github FS with no global sync between repos.
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