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GVFS vs Xltrail

Overview

GVFS

Stacks19

Followers38

Votes0

Xltrail

Stacks3

Followers16

Votes0

GVFS vs Xltrail: What are the differences?

Developers describe GVFS 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. On the other hand, Xltrail is detailed as "An open-source Git command line extension for Excel workbook files". Git version control for Excel. Xtrail integrats with Git to visualize changes in Excel workbooks.

GVFS and Xltrail belong to "Git Tools" category of the tech stack.

GVFS and Xltrail are both open source tools. It seems that GVFS with 4.81K GitHub stars and 358 forks on GitHub has more adoption than Xltrail with 200 GitHub stars and 18 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

GVFS	Xltrail
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 version control for Excel. Xtrail integrats with Git to visualize changes in Excel workbooks.
-	Integrates with Git; See who changed what and when; Supports xls, xlsx, xlsm, xlsb, xla, etc.; Shows changes in cells and VBA code; Simple, server based installation; No Excel addins required; Install behind your firewall or in the cloud; Works with Windows, Mack, and Linux
Statistics
Stacks 19	Stacks 3
Followers 38	Followers 16
Votes 0	Votes 0
Integrations
Git	Git

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