For the avoidance of doubt, GitHub is not upstream of Git.
TL;DR pretty sure it's not touching git source at all.
Looking though the GVFS readme: https://github.com/Microsoft/GVFS it appears that it actually wraps git, which would make sense because in that case they would have to explicitly add support to each git host and provide individual platform ports of GVFS (all of which would be unnecessary if it was actually upstreamed into git).
So that's good... git is one of my favourite open source tools and I would really hate for M$ to start polluting it. I don't care if GVFS is a good idea or not I just don't trust the fuckers and they will always deserve that suspicion.
Not really polluting but rather having some objects be fetched only on demand.
Source: 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.
For the record as far as I understand GVFS the article is correctly using git vs Github.