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Virtual File System for Git: Enable Git at Enterprise Scale

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Dominant language: C#
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Sep 16, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 19, 2026
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gvfs mount fails after changing the repo drive letter Open

type: enhancement type: question

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1522 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 13, 2019
GVFS lock stalls indefinitely Open

affects: performance affects: reliability type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1519 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 11, 2019
When VFS4G Mount process can't download sizes, it dies Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1505 · Opened Sep 4, 2019
Introduce some kind of log rotation / retention policy Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1504 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 4, 2019
Q: The project seems to avoid using a dependency injection framework. Why? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1493 · Opened Aug 27, 2019
Windows: GVFS.Service should log the user ID that triggered the OnSessionChange callback Open

affects: live-site platform: windows

microsoft/VFSForGit#1490 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 23, 2019
Mac: Handle GetVNodeAttributes failures more gracefully Open

affects: correctness affects: reliability domain: kext platform: macOS

microsoft/VFSForGit#1489 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 23, 2019
[Mac] gvfs mount creates default.profraw in current working directory Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1484 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 23, 2019
Improve test coverage around symlinks Open

affects: tests platform: linux platform: macOS platform: windows pri2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1480 · Opened Aug 22, 2019
MoveIndexFileFails on Windows is failing with CmdRunner Open

affects: tests platform: windows type: test-reliability

microsoft/VFSForGit#1477 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 22, 2019
Mac: Review kext.error message from the last 3 weeks Open

affects: live-site platform: macOS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1471 · Opened Aug 21, 2019
Mac: Disk layout upgrade took 2.5 hours Open

affects: performance platform: macOS

microsoft/VFSForGit#1468 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 21, 2019
'gvfs health': Log a copy of each report with the Telemetry keyword Open

affects: live-site platform: linux platform: macOS platform: windows

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1465 · Opened Aug 20, 2019
Update precommand locking tables for new `git-switch` and `git-restore` commands in Git 2.23 Open

affects: correctness domain: user-mode type: enhancement

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1463 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 20, 2019
GVFS.Mount keeps all pack index file descriptors open Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1462 · Opened Aug 20, 2019
Pass --no-progress argument to `git commit-graph` once the option is available Open

affects: mount-reliability platform: linux platform: macOS platform: windows

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1454 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 19, 2019
Update 'gvfs health' to check if assembly binding logging is enabled Open

affects: live-site affects: polish platform: linux platform: macOS platform: windows type: enhancement

Difficulty 2/5 Half a day Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1453 · Opened Aug 19, 2019
Upgrade should request elevation when run with --confirm. Open

affects: polish platform: windows type: spike

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1439 · Opened Aug 12, 2019
Mac: Diagnostics for for Kext Events Open

domain: kext platform: macOS

microsoft/VFSForGit#1437 · 10 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 9, 2019
Windows: 'git status' has no output if interactive rebase is interrupted Open

affects: correctness platform: windows type: bug

microsoft/VFSForGit#1427 · 2 assignees · Opened Aug 6, 2019
NuGet package verification in NugetUpgrader on mac Open

affects: polish platform: macOS

microsoft/VFSForGit#1418 · 6 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 6, 2019
Log failures to create new log files to telemetry and the system log Open

affects: live-site platform: macOS platform: windows

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1400 · Opened Jul 31, 2019
Keep a list of known issues/behaviors in the VFSForGit repo Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1396 · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 31, 2019
Mac: Set native dylib versions Open

affects: live-site platform: macOS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1391 · Opened Jul 30, 2019
Mac: Set proper version on native hooks Open

affects: live-site platform: macOS

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1390 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2019
Make 'git gui' not block other git commands Open

platform: macOS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1387 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 30, 2019
Fix races when running 'gvfs mount' on same repo at the same time Open

microsoft/VFSForGit#1378 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 26, 2019
Mac: MACPRO build agents keep hanging during the build step Open

platform: macOS type: test-reliability

microsoft/VFSForGit#1376 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 26, 2019
Mac: Improve validation and error handling in HandleEnumerateDirectoryRequest and HandleHydrateFileRequest Open

affects: reliability domain: user-mode platform: macOS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1374 · Opened Jul 25, 2019
Mac: PrjFS_ConvertDirectoryToVirtualizationRoot should fail if called for a path inside an existing root Open

affects: reliability domain: user-mode platform: macOS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1373 · Opened Jul 25, 2019
Mac: Improve validation in PrjFS_UpdatePlaceholderFileIfNeeded and PrjFS_DeleteFile Open

affects: reliability domain: user-mode platform: macOS

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1372 · Opened Jul 25, 2019
Mac: Improve error handling in PrjFS_WritePlaceholderFile and PrjFS_WritePlaceholderDirectory Open

affects: reliability domain: user-mode platform: macOS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1371 · Opened Jul 25, 2019
Mac: Use umask() to reduce the number of calls to chmod() in PrjFS_WritePlaceholderFile Open

affects: performance affects: reliability domain: user-mode platform: macOS

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1370 · Opened Jul 25, 2019
Mac: Validate magic number and format in TryGetXAttr Open

affects: reliability platform: macOS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1369 · Opened Jul 25, 2019
Mac: Fallback to using file path in HandleFileOpOperation if the vnode lookup fails Open

affects: correctness affects: reliability domain: kext platform: macOS

microsoft/VFSForGit#1367 · 4 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 25, 2019
POSIX: Remove or no-op calls to CreateGitScript on POSIX Open

affects: polish platform: linux platform: macOS

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1364 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 25, 2019
Mac: Determine the correct error code to return from OnGetFileStream when hydrating a file fails Open

affects: correctness domain: user-mode platform: macOS pri3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1362 · Opened Jul 25, 2019
Mac: Find a way to stream file contents that's faster than reading a single byte at a time Open

affects: performance domain: user-mode platform: macOS

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1361 · Opened Jul 25, 2019
Mac: Implement PlaceholderHasVersionInfo (for functional tests) Open

affects: tests platform: macOS

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1360 · Opened Jul 25, 2019
POSIX: Update TryGetGVFSHooksPathAndVersion to retrieve the version of GVFS.Hooks rather than the current process Open

affects: live-site platform: linux platform: macOS pri3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1359 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 25, 2019
POSIX: Implement TryGetNormalizedPathImplementation and GetFinalPathName and properly handle firmlinks on Catalina Open

affects: correctness platform: linux platform: macOS

microsoft/VFSForGit#1358 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 25, 2019
POSIX: Implement GetPhysicalDiskInfo Open

affects: live-site platform: linux platform: macOS

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1356 · Opened Jul 25, 2019
POSIX: Implement IsConsoleOutputRedirectedToFileImplementation Open

affects: polish platform: linux platform: macOS

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1355 · Opened Jul 25, 2019
Q: What is the idea behind GVFS_UNATTENDED environment variable? Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1352 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 24, 2019
'gvfs diagnose' should copy ProjFS log files even if flushing its file buffers fails Open

affects: live-site platform: macOS platform: windows

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1344 · Opened Jul 22, 2019
Mac: Detect new folders sooner in the vnode op event handler, remove NeedsNewFolderCreateNotification, and try enabling NeedsNewFolderCreateNotification functional tests Open

domain: kext platform: macOS

microsoft/VFSForGit#1339 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 19, 2019
Mac: Notification tests failing on Catalina Beta 4 Open

domain: catalina platform: macOS

microsoft/VFSForGit#1338 · 3 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 18, 2019
Mac: Verify PrjFSKextLogDaemon is installed correctly and started properly Open

domain: catalina platform: macOS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1336 · Opened Jul 17, 2019
Add stdin argument to the include verb Open

microsoft/VFSForGit#1332 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 16, 2019
Mac: Make Functional Tests work on Catalina Open

domain: catalina platform: macOS

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 20/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1327 · 4 comments · Opened Jul 12, 2019

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