VFS For Git 1.0.19140.2

Release Notes

• Large improvements to git checkout performance when there are many folder placeholders.
• Background tasks run with lower priority to address user feedback on maintenance job performance.
• A background task will now compress and deduplicate the pack-file data in the shared object cache, resulting in more sustainable disk usage
• Upgrade supports an anonymous endpoint to decouple rollouts to different engineering systems.
• Improvements to the installation to more gracefully recover from an uninstallation of VFS for Git and subsequent
• Other bug fixes, engineering improvements, and test reliability fixes.

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VFS For Git 1.0.19130.1

Release notes:

• Fixed several incorrect interactions with credentials
  • Now scopes credential.useHttpPath to just dev.azure.com hostname
  • Now erases credentials on authentication failure
  • Now approves credentials on authentication success
• Lots of live-site improvements
  • Correlate trace2 stream with VFS for Git stream with the Git session ID.
  • Break down update placeholders timings so we can see where time is spend during checkout.
• Fixes a copy failure when copying the upgrade tool to its temporary location.

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VFS For Git 1.0.19116.1

Update components included with internal distribution

VFS For Git 1.0.19113.4

Includes fixes to config settings for internal users only

VFS for Git 1.0.19101.1

Release notes:

• Fixed several incorrect interactions with credentials
  • Now scopes credential.useHttpPath to just dev.azure.com hostname
  • Now erases credentials on authentication failure
  • Now approves credentials on authentication success
• Lots of live-site improvements
  • Correlate trace2 stream with VFS for Git stream with the Git session ID.
  • Break down update placeholders timings so we can see where time is spend during checkout.
• Many smaller bug fixes

VFS for Git 1.0.19074.1

Bug fixes:

• Consume new GCM to fix git credential erase behavior
• Properly reacquire credentials during nuget upgrader
• Disable commit-graph verify for performance concerns

VFS for Git 1.0.19060.1

Bug fixes:

• gvfs upgrade could fail if its background processes were launched in an existing enlistment.
• git multi-pack-index verify would run slowly if the objects directory had more than 2048 packfiles.
• Improve error message from gvfs upgrade if the Git installation could not be found.

VFS for Git 1.0.19052.1

New Features:

• Upgrade supports NuGet feeds as a distribution source.
• Post-index-change hook will help ensure consistency between Git and VFS for Git's reckoning of the state of the repository, and eliminate a class of bugs.
• VFS for Git now supports anonymous access for public repositories.
• gvfs prefetch learned how to take --files-list.

Performance and Reliability

• "Sparse" push algorithm should improve performance of pushes where only a small cone of a repository is modified.
• Multi-threaded index reads will improve load time of large .git/index
• Built-in git rebase is on by default.
• No-op gvfs prefetch --hydrate performance is dramatically improved
• Commit-graph and multi-pack-index are validated after writing to eliminate corruption scenarios
• Multiple mount process reliability bugs have been squashed.
• VFS for Git will performance maintenance in the background. This release will pack loose objects in .gvfsCache into packfiles.

General Improvments

• Log files now include UTC offset.
• Other bug fixes

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VFS For Git 1.0.18297.1: Upgrade test

This release is identical to the previous. It was published to test upgrade.

VFS for Git 1.0.18289.1: Prompt to upgrade and checkout perf

New Features

• VFS for Git will check the GitHub releases for the configured ring and prompt occasionally when running Git commands in a VFS for Git repository. To configure your ring, use the new gvfs config verb, like:
  gvfs config upgrade.ring ["fast", "slow", "none"]
  VFS for Git will check in the background for an available upgrade. If one is available, a message will be shown periodically to the user in the post-command hook to run gvfs upgrade to install the new version.
• In the future, VFS for Git will automatically upgrade as new bits become available in the configured ring, eliminating the need to run gvfs upgrade to

Performance Improvements

• Upgraded to Git 2.19. This version brings with it improvements to unpack_trees to speed up checkout, merge, reset, and rebase.
• Improvements to compact and maintain the ModifiedPaths.dat database to help mitigate the problem of command perf degrading over time in an enlistment.

General Improvements

• A couple of fixes for using VS Code on top of VFS for Git.
• Other perf and reliability fixes.