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Re:Sunsetting Mercurial Support in Bitbucket by Arnavion on Tuesday August 20, 2019 @05:58PM (#20752627)
The Windows tree is unlike the Linux tree in that the Windows tree is the entirety of Windows, not just the kernel. Not having to check out the entire tree is why GVFS was made.

https://github.com/Microsoft/WSL/issues/873#issuecomment-425... talks about why Windows I/O for multi-file operations is slow in general (as opposed to sustained I/O on a single file).

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