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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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303 open issues indexed

`git restore` after `git cherry-pick -n` can leave GVFS in a bad state Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1855 · 3 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2025
create/com.rarlab.rar/files/_rartemp_open_1752634315219/RunVersion:1.0_1.5-2.5_12.5PlugİnBuildaccountant-software-intl-6757577.live/?rarutmAndroidManifest.rarexerar • Socket operation on portl-socket Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1850 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 16, 2025
CRLF conversions not supported when running under GVFS even when core.autocrlf = false Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1832 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 20, 2025
Unable to upgrade VFS for Git Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1814 · 1 comment · Opened Aug 15, 2024
Git Restore Fails with "did not match any file(s) known to git" Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1812 · 20 comments · Opened Apr 25, 2024
AutoMount fails when ACLs on directory are note set correctly Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1811 · Opened Apr 11, 2024
No more options? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 10/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1810 · Opened Mar 31, 2024
Corrupt object tests failing with latest microsoft/git version Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1805 · Opened Feb 15, 2024
Cache folder grows boundlessly Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1772 · 4 comments · Opened Mar 31, 2022
Missing entries in context menus (on Windows) Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1762 · Opened Nov 17, 2021
Azure DevOps GVFS Error Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1758 · Opened Oct 27, 2021
Can VFS work with LFS? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1742 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 22, 2021
Allow "dismount" to be used as a command line option (alias for "unmount") Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1708 · 3 comments · 5 reactions · Opened Dec 10, 2020
Tracking: ProjFS regression with buffer resizing Open

affects: engineering type: test-reliability

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1696 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 14, 2020
Windows symbolic link Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1695 · Opened Oct 12, 2020
"gvfs service --list-mounted" returns nothing Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1693 · 2 reactions · Opened Sep 24, 2020
Failure to start gvfs.service in docker Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1692 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 22, 2020
File/Directory change incorrectly reports conflict Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1680 · Opened Jul 1, 2020
Auto-mount feature does not work on BitLockered drive Open

affects: polish platform: windows type: enhancement

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1670 · 5 comments · Opened May 29, 2020
how to debug hydration? Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1667 · 6 comments · Opened May 26, 2020
Redirection issue Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1649 · 1 comment · Opened Apr 9, 2020
Upgrade using the toast notification fails Open

domain: upgrade platform: windows

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1644 · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 19, 2020
Clone always picks default cache server Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1641 · Opened Mar 3, 2020
Gvfs prefetch --hydrate not sparse aware Open

domain: sparse pri3

microsoft/VFSForGit#1632 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 23, 2020
"Failed to record run time" failures when moving temp file Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1631 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 22, 2020
Don't dispatch a mount failure notification unless the mount actually failed Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1630 · Opened Jan 10, 2020
Project status for macOS Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1624 · 17 reactions · Opened Dec 23, 2019
directory not accessible after merge from remote Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1612 · Opened Dec 6, 2019
git hangs for one file Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1609 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 29, 2019
Use a faster algorithm for path matching in 'gvfs sparse' Open

domain: sparse pri2

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1608 · Opened Nov 26, 2019
Provide clear message/instructions if 'gvfs sparse' fails mid-command Open

domain: sparse pri2

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1606 · 2 comments · Opened Nov 25, 2019
'gvfs sparse' dumps exception to console if '-f' is passed a file that does not exist Open

domain: sparse pri3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 42/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1595 · Opened Nov 15, 2019
Make sure that we can separate time spent in GVFS.Hooks.exe from time spent in other post-command hooks Open

affects: live-site domain: sparse pri2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1591 · Opened Nov 14, 2019
Add a build/pipeline for testing 'sparse' + custom post-command hook integration Open

domain: sparse pri2

microsoft/VFSForGit#1589 · 2 assignees · Opened Nov 14, 2019
Old repo/local configuration entries are not removed Open

affects: correctness affects: mount-reliability type: bug

microsoft/VFSForGit#1587 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 13, 2019
GVFS Sparse: have gvfs sparse failures caused by opened files write to stderr like file handle failures Open

domain: sparse pri2

microsoft/VFSForGit#1583 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 11, 2019
Automatically repair local cache directories created with the wrong ACLs Open

affects: reliability platform: windows

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1580 · Opened Nov 9, 2019
Re-create missing local cache directories with the correct ACLs Open

affects: reliability platform: windows

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1579 · Opened Nov 9, 2019
Add info about gvfs sparse to gvfs health verb Open

domain: sparse pri3

microsoft/VFSForGit#1577 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 8, 2019
GVFS Sparse displays multiple lines with waiting symbol moving when being run from application Open

domain: sparse pri2

microsoft/VFSForGit#1575 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 8, 2019
Stop using "mock:" in unit test paths Open

affects: tests

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1572 · Opened Nov 6, 2019
PHP stat fails inside src folder Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1567 · 3 comments · Opened Nov 5, 2019
GVFS Mount fails if post-command git hook outputs anything to stdout Open

pri3

microsoft/VFSForGit#1564 · 1 assignee · Opened Nov 4, 2019
How to silent install? Open

type: question

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 30/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1556 · 5 comments · Opened Oct 16, 2019
"TryDownloadPrefetchPacks (Start)" message is missing from prefetch logs Open

affects: live-site type: bug

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1555 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 14, 2019
Simplify install and setup Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 15/100

microsoft/VFSForGit#1554 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 12, 2019
Remove pack input from PostFetchJob Open

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1551 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 10, 2019
Don't allow --no-verify when upgrading on platforms that support verification Open

affects: polish affects: security platform: windows

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1548 · Opened Oct 8, 2019
Mac: Create a functional test build definition that will run on the iMac Pro perf machine Open

affects: engineering affects: tests platform: macOS

microsoft/VFSForGit#1525 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 18, 2019
Problem unlinking when checking out individual files Open

affects: polish domain: user-mode type: bug

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

microsoft/VFSForGit#1523 · 2 comments · Opened Sep 16, 2019

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