GVFS vs Git Extensions

Overview

GVFS

Stacks19

Followers38

Votes0

Git Extensions

Stacks19

Followers20

Votes0

GitHub Stars8.2K

Forks2.2K

Git Extensions vs GVFS: What are the differences?

Developers describe Git Extensions as "A standalone UI tool for managing Git repositories". It is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio. On the other hand, GVFS is detailed as "Git Virtual File System (by Microsoft)". GVFS virtualizes the file system beneath your git repo so that git and all tools see a fully hydrated repo, but GVFS only downloads objects as they are needed. GVFS also manages git's sparse-checkout to ensure that git operations like status, checkout, etc., can be as quick as possible.

Git Extensions and GVFS can be primarily classified as "Git" tools.

GVFS is an open source tool with 5.27K GitHub stars and 409 GitHub forks. Here's a link to GVFS's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

GVFS	Git Extensions
GVFS virtualizes the file system beneath your git repo so that git and all tools see a fully hydrated repo, but GVFS only downloads objects as they are needed. GVFS also manages git's sparse-checkout to ensure that git operations like status, checkout, etc., can be as quick as possible.	It is a standalone UI tool for managing git repositories. It also integrates with Windows Explorer and Microsoft Visual Studio.
-	Windows Explorer integration for Git; Visual Studio (2015/2017/2019) plugin (download); Feature rich user interface for Git
Statistics
GitHub Stars -	GitHub Stars 8.2K
GitHub Forks -	GitHub Forks 2.2K
Stacks 19	Stacks 19
Followers 38	Followers 20
Votes 0	Votes 0
Integrations
Git	Git Visual Studio

What are some alternatives to GVFS, Git Extensions?

Diff So Fancy

diff-so-fancy builds on the good-lookin' output of git contrib's diff-highlight to upgrade your diffs' appearances.

TortoiseGit

It is a Git revision control client, implemented as a Windows shell extension and based on TortoiseSVN. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License.

GitUI

It is a blazing fast terminal-UI for git written in Rust. You can inspect, commit, and amend changes. It has context-based help (no need to memorize tons of hot-keys).

pre-commit by Yelp

If one of your developers doesn’t have node installed but modifies a JavaScript file, pre-commit automatically handles downloading and building node to run jshint without root. Pre-commit is a multi-language package manager for pre-commit hooks. You specify a list of hooks you want and pre-commit manages the installation and execution of any hook written in any language before every commit. pre-commit is specifically designed to not require root access.

ungit

Clean and intuitive UI that makes it easy to understand git.

rebase-editor

Simple terminal based sequence editor for git interactive rebase. Written in Node.js, published to npm, uses terminal-kit.

hub

hub is a command line tool that wraps git in order to extend it with extra features and commands that make working with GitHub easier.

Check It Out

Check It Out lets you interactively see and choose what branch you want to check out without the hassle of trying to type out a long or confusing branch name. Checking out branches just got even simpler!