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GVFS vs hub

Overview

GVFS

Stacks19

Followers38

Votes0

hub

Stacks682

Followers15

Votes1

GVFS vs hub: What are the differences?

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; hub: Wraps Git with extra features that make working with GitHub easier (by GitHub). 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.

GVFS and hub can be categorized as "Git" tools.

GVFS and hub are both open source tools. It seems that hub with 16.7K GitHub stars and 1.67K forks on GitHub has more adoption than GVFS with 4.81K GitHub stars and 358 GitHub forks.

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Detailed Comparison

GVFS	hub
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.	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.
Statistics
Stacks 19	Stacks 682
Followers 38	Followers 15
Votes 0	Votes 1
Pros & Cons
No community feedback yet	Pros 1 Hub browse
Integrations
Git	GitHub

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