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Re:The largest Git repo by saeednoursalehi on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @01:22PM (#14411704)
This was discussed a bit in the comments in Brian Harry's last post on GVFS: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/bharry/2017/02/03/scaling-g...

We're building a VFS (Virtual File System) for Git (G) so GVFS was a very natural name and it just kind of stuck once we came up with it.

Re:The largest Git repo by Kostic on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @03:29PM (#14412763)
Are you aware that the name was already taken[0] for something which also has to do with file systems?

[0] https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gvfs