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GVFS vs Git-Repo

Overview

Git-Repo

Stacks96

Followers37

Votes0

GitHub Stars851

Forks90

GVFS

Stacks19

Followers38

Votes0

Git-Repo vs GVFS: What are the differences?

What is Git-Repo? Manage Gitlab, GitHub and Bitbucket from the command line. Control your remote git hosting services from the git commandline. The usage is very simple.

What is GVFS? 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-Repo and GVFS belong to "Git Tools" category of the tech stack.

Git-Repo and GVFS are both open source tools. It seems that GVFS with 4.81K GitHub stars and 358 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Git-Repo with 802 GitHub stars and 67 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

Git-Repo	GVFS
Control your remote git hosting services from the git commandline. The usage is very simple.	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.
Statistics
GitHub Stars 851	GitHub Stars -
GitHub Forks 90	GitHub Forks -
Stacks 96	Stacks 19
Followers 37	Followers 38
Votes 0	Votes 0
Integrations
GitLab Bitbucket GitHub	Git

What are some alternatives to Git-Repo, GVFS?

Diff So Fancy

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TortoiseGit

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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!

hug-scm

A humane, intuitive interface for Git and other version control systems. Hug transforms complex and forgettable Git commands into a simple, predictable language that feels natural to use, keeping you focused on your code, not on wrestling with version control.