I should update it, but the Microsoft patches are not for Windows, but specifically git vfs.

Those patches make git work better with large monorepos

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_File_System_for_Git

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023, 3:20 PM <notify@aur.archlinux.org> wrote:

MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for git-vfs [2]:

Abandoned package from 2022-01 for Microsoft's fork of Git-for-
Windows.

Flagged OOD since 2023-04.

I don't see why this would be useful on Linux. Repo's description also
says it contains "Microsoft-specific patches".

I recommend deletion, based on the above mentioned facts.

[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/git-vfs/