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Git Virtual File System (GVFS)
Administering Bitbucket Server
- Users and groups
- External user directories
- Global permissions
- Setting up your mail server
- Integrating Bitbucket Server with Atlassian applications
- Connecting Bitbucket Server to an external database
- Migrating Bitbucket Server to another server
- Specifying the base URL for Bitbucket Server
- Configuring the application navigator
- Managing add-ons
- Audit logging in Bitbucket Server
- Running Bitbucket Server as a Windows service
- Updating your Bitbucket Server license details
- Bitbucket Server config properties
- Moving Bitbucket Server to a different context path
- Data recovery and backups
- Disabling HTTP(S) access to Git repositories in Bitbucket Server
- Smart Mirroring
- Git Large File Storage
- Enabling SSH access to Git repositories in Bitbucket Server
- Using diff transcoding in Bitbucket Server
- Changing the port that Bitbucket Server listens on
- Lockout recovery process
- Proxying and securing Bitbucket Server
- High availability for Bitbucket Server
- Enabling JMX counters for performance monitoring
- Bitbucket Server debug logging
- Scaling Bitbucket Server
- Getting started with Bitbucket Server and AWS
- Add shortcut links to a Bitbucket Server repository
- Data Center Migration
- Git Virtual File System (GVFS)
- Diagnostics for third-party apps
- Administer code search
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Microsoft has developed an open source project called GVFS (Git Virtual File System) that helps with developer productivity when it comes to very large monolithic codebases in Git.
GVFS virtualizes the file system underlying Git repositories on developers’ machines, making more efficient use of bandwidth, space and computation by only transferring and working with files that have been accessed.
The Atlassian Marketplace provides an experimental add-on for Bitbucket Server and Data Center that adds the server-side support needed to serve GVFS-enabled Git clients. It can be installed on any supported server platform and once installed, Bitbucket will handle GVFS protocol requests for any repository without any additional setup, from properly configured Git clients.
For more information about setting up GVFS on the client side, please see the blog post and linked resources from Microsoft. As at October 2017, only Windows client support was available. Sourcetree 2.0 and above for Windows is also GVFS aware when used with a GVFS enabled client.
Like GVFS itself, the experimental add-on is relatively new, and unsupported. It is an experimental technology preview not intended for production use, though being a distinct code path it is unlikely to introduce side effects for non-GVFS users on a production instance. If you work on large repositories, we’d love for you to take it for a spin and send us your feedback.
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