gity is an open-source Rust daemon that brings sub-millisecond git status to monorepos with millions of files — using OS-native file watchers, Git's fsmonitor v2 protocol, and warm caches that survive reboots.https://gity.neullabs.com/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/anatomy-of-the-gity-daemon/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/anatomy-of-the-gity-daemon/A walk through the gity codebase — the eight Rust crates, the IPC protocol, the storage layer, and the design choices that make a 12 MB binary serve a 250k-file monorepo.Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTarchitecturerustinternalsgityhttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/git-status-microbenchmarks/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/git-status-microbenchmarks/We profiled `git status` on a 250k-file monorepo across macOS, Linux, and Windows. Here's where the milliseconds end up — and why fsmonitor wins by a factor of 50.Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTbenchmarkgitperformanceprofilinghttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/why-we-built-gity/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/why-we-built-gity/The story behind a small Rust daemon that makes Git fast on giant monorepos — and the engineering decisions that fell out of the design constraints.Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTstoryrustengineeringhttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/background-git-maintenance-explained/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/background-git-maintenance-explained/Git ships a scheduler for prefetch, commit-graph, and incremental repack. Here's what each task does, when it pays off, and how gity makes it CPU- and battery-aware.Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTgit maintenanceprefetchcommit-graphperformancehttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/multiple-worktrees-shared-cache/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/multiple-worktrees-shared-cache/Why `git worktree` is underused, how to set up two or three worktrees for parallel feature work, and what gity does to keep status caches warm across them.Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTworktreegitworkflowperformancehttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/ide-git-status-polling-fix/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/ide-git-status-polling-fix/VS Code, IntelliJ, and Sublime all poll `git status` aggressively for their gutter decorations. Here's what to change so your editor stops eating CPU.Mon, 01 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTidevscodeintellijgitperformancehttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/accelerate-ci-cd-git-operations/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/accelerate-ci-cd-git-operations/Concrete patterns to cut Git wall-clock time in CI/CD — partial clone, oneshot fsmonitor, sparse checkout, and the surprising cost of shallow clones.Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTci-cdperformancegitmonorepohttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/fsevents-inotify-readdirectorychangesw-cross-platform/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/fsevents-inotify-readdirectorychangesw-cross-platform/A deep dive into the three OS-native file-change APIs that power every modern file watcher — and the corner cases each one will throw at you.Thu, 28 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTfile-watchingfseventsinotifycross-platformhttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/gity-vs-vfs-projfs-gvfs/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/gity-vs-vfs-projfs-gvfs/Microsoft's lineage of giant-monorepo tools — GVFS, VFS for Git, Scalar — versus user-space accelerators like gity. What each really does and when to reach for which.Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTscalarvfsprojfsmonorepocomparisonhttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/gity-vs-native-fsmonitor/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/gity-vs-native-fsmonitor/Git ships a native fsmonitor daemon. Here's what it actually covers, what's still missing, and when adding gity on top makes sense.Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTfsmonitorcomparisongitperformancehttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/gity-vs-watchman/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/gity-vs-watchman/An honest comparison of gity and Facebook's Watchman for accelerating Git on large repositories — what each does best, what's awkward, and how to pick.Fri, 22 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTwatchmancomparisonfsmonitortoolshttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/monorepo-git-performance-guide/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/monorepo-git-performance-guide/Everything we've learned shipping git tooling for million-file monorepos — what scales, what doesn't, and the order to apply each fix.Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTmonorepogitperformancescalinghttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/git-fsmonitor-protocol-explained/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/git-fsmonitor-protocol-explained/What fsmonitor actually does, how the v2 wire protocol works between Git and a helper, and why it can make `git status` 100× faster without modifying Git itself.Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTgitfsmonitorprotocolperformancehttps://gity.neullabs.com/blog/speed-up-git-status-large-monorepo/https://gity.neullabs.com/blog/speed-up-git-status-large-monorepo/A practical guide to making git status return in milliseconds, not seconds — covering fsmonitor v2, untrackedCache, partial clones, and when each technique actually helps.Fri, 15 May 2026 00:00:00 GMTgitperformancemonorepofsmonitor