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From YouTube: Visual Studio Online and Git LFS - GitHub Universe 2015

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Saeed Noursalehi, a PM on Visual Studio Online, discusses Microsoft's involvement with the Git Large File Storage (LFS) project and future plans.

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The next person I want to bring onto the stage is Sayid nourish and he is from Microsoft a program manager there. He currently lives in both seattle and durham. North carolina living in both locations is very difficult and you have to use a teleportation device. I assume right yeah, so he is an avid rock climber. Excuse me and loves to play acoustic guitar some folk music. So without further ado, would you welcome Syed to the stage.

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Well, my slides are going to be a lot more boring than Steve's. Were there we go to introduce myself I'm a p.m. in Visual, Studio, online and I work on our get service, and my entire purpose in life right now is to make it scale for large teams and there's a variety of teams.

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I mean we work with a lot of external customers, but even within the company, there's a lot of teams that are migrating over to get from whatever system they're currently on, there's a lot of them throughout the company and they have a lot of different needs. Different requirements, but across the board I have customers internally that are asking for larger, get repos. Then then they should reasonably want.

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You would think, but you know we've got to meet people where their needs are, and you know, there's there's teams I just have a lot of code and we got to figure out how to make it so that you can have humongous code bases and get and how to deal with thousands or tens of thousands of branches and those sorts of things.

B

But there are also team like games or various other program, various other teams- I just have large assets that they need to store, and that's you know where something like lfs comes in, because you have to be able to manage those those assets and not bloat your repo. So we got involved with lfs pretty early on before it was called lfs back and it was get media too.

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We were working with rick on on the design of it, and so we implemented the the protocol very early on and we piloted it on on a couple of our repos internally, which was great because we were able to give a lot of feedback and and and like Rick, was very receptive to design proposals and future proposals, and things like that.

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So like we needed he mentioned compression, we had teams that were adding huge files into lfs and those files were very compressible, and so we propose the idea of making lfs the client extensible, and so we built that feature and submitted it. And then now we can use teams internally can decide to customize lfs. If that's what they want to do.

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We've you know: we've made other enhancements like there's teams that have want to check in files that are 3 gigabytes in size. We had to do some work to make that work right now we're adding ntlm authentication to the client so that it can talk to a TFS server.

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You know and along the way we realized. You know. Visual studio has its own get tooling and we want people to be able to use visual studio with lfs, but we actually don't want to design a for lfs lfs just uses hooks and filters so we'll go. We've gone and updated, live, get to and we'll get too sharp to to understand, custom filters and hooks we're in the process of integrating that individual studio, but any other tool that uses get too sharp or live get to will be able to use that as well.

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And all this client, tooling is great, but when you're talking in different services, figuring out off is always really tricky. So we actually just yesterday released a new get credential helper that we're calling the credential manager currently as for Windows, we're working on other platforms, Linux and Mac.

B

As well and what it does is it will it talks currently into both github and visual City online it'll automatically handle two factor: auth we'll handle generating a like an vs Oh it'll generate a personal access token and store it in your windows, credential store and pass that along to the service and it's all transparent to the user. You just fetch or push, and it just works which is really nice.

B

We also announced today that every git repo on BSO now supports lfs and there's no extra configuration required. You just download the lfs client from from the git LFS website and set it up and then push to your vso git repo, so I'm going to go ahead and just demo that.

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Hopefully this works.

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My video card has been having problems. Hopefully this connects.

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Do I need to do anything here.

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Well um there we go we're in thank you yeah, so what I'm going to do is I'm going to go into I. Just have my own personal vso account here, nothing special about it. I'm just going to go and create a brand-new brand-new, git, repo and.

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As soon as it gets created, I'll take the URL of that and clone clone that repo here, it's just an empty repo I'm, really all I'm doing is setting up my my remote and.

B

I'm, just going to run, I already have get lfs installed, so I'll just tell it to track a zip files and oh I'm in the wrong one. It says it's already supported. Demo 2 is the one I just just cloned here, so get lfs track and I'm going to copy over a zip file that I have and add it, and, as Rick said, you know, it's all very transparent, I, just added that that zip file and behind the scenes what it did was it replaced it into it. You put it in a different location.

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What it actually put it in my repo is a text file. So all that just happened right now, I'm going to commit and push it.

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So now what it's going to do is it's going to talk to the lfs rest endpoint on vso push the is pushing up the large file. First, it's a small file, but it's a zip file and then once it once it succeeded in pushing that zip file. Then it pushed the the commit as normal and so that there it is working with vs. Oh, so that's it! Thank you.

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