GVFS vs pre-commit by Yelp: 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; pre-commit by Yelp: A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks. 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.

GVFS and pre-commit by Yelp can be categorized as "Git" tools.

GVFS and pre-commit by Yelp are both open source tools. It seems that GVFS with 4.81K GitHub stars and 358 forks on GitHub has more adoption than pre-commit by Yelp with 3.09K GitHub stars and 234 GitHub forks.