Publish releases on macOS

[Jarred-Sumner]

I'd love to try out VFS for Git on Mac and see what the performance difference looks like on a larger repo.

However:

• Uncomfortable with disabling SIP on my work laptop
• Installing Visual Studio for Mac just to try this out is a little too much

The easiest thing on my end would be if I could do something like brew install vfs-for-git. Second easiest would be a DMG with an installer I could download from the Releases section on this repo.

Is there an issue I can track that will let me know when pre-built releases for Mac are published?

[jrbriggs]

Thanks for interest, @Jarred-Sumner! We're still a ways away from offering pre-built releases of VFS for Git on Mac. Most notably, we need to be signing the kext, tracked by #528. After that we'll be in a state where you won't need to disable SIP so we can offer releases to the general public.

I've retitled this issue as the general tracking issue for offering those releases.

[sibelius]

can we install vfs using brew?

brew install vfs

[grimreaper]

can we install vfs using brew?

or macports?

[siennathesane]

@jrbriggs what's the state of this issue?

[kigster]

can we install vfs using brew?

or macports?

Nobody uses macports anymore :)

[mr-pascal]

After the ticket is now open for 3 years, is there any update on this?

[vtbassmatt]

VFS for Git will not be coming to macOS after all. There are several overlapping reasons, but the most relevant is that acceptable performance required a particular set of extensibility points which the macOS platform no longer offers. Instead, we suggest you try out all the performance gains that have upstreamed into Git, like partial clones and sparse checkouts, and possibly also Scalar.