No, they needed to do some modifications to the git suite of tools. Generally git expects all objects to be on disk and Microsoft wanted to have sparse checkout

No, they needed to do some modifications to the git suite of tools. Generally git expects all objects to be on disk and Microsoft wanted to have sparse checkouts of files in a specific revision. Not really polluting but rather having some objects be fetched only on demand. Source: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/02/03/announcing-gvfs-git-virtual-file-system/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/devops/2017/02/03/announcin... > In addition to the GVFS sources, we’ve also made some changes to Git to allow it to work well on a GVFS-backed repo, and those sources are available at https://github.com/Microsoft/git https://github.com/Microsoft/git. For the record as far as I understand GVFS the article is correctly using git vs Github.