GVFS vs TortoiseGit

Overview

TortoiseGit

Stacks50

Followers90

Votes5

GVFS

Stacks19

Followers38

Votes0

GVFS vs TortoiseGit: What are the differences?

Developers describe GVFS as "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. On the other hand, TortoiseGit is detailed as "The Power of Git in a Windows Shell". It is a Git revision control client, implemented as a Windows shell extension and based on TortoiseSVN. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License.

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

GVFS is an open source tool with 4.85K GitHub stars and 362 GitHub forks. Here's a link to GVFS's open source repository on GitHub.

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Detailed Comparison

TortoiseGit	GVFS
It is a Git revision control client, implemented as a Windows shell extension and based on TortoiseSVN. It is free software released under the GNU General Public License.	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.
ShellExtension	-
Statistics
Stacks 50	Stacks 19
Followers 90	Followers 38
Votes 5	Votes 0
Pros & Cons
Pros 4 Turns Explorer into a git client 1 Free	No community feedback yet
Integrations
Windows Git	Git

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pre-commit by Yelp

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ungit

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hug-scm

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pre-commit

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