That will speed up things a lot, but this here is really funny:
"Microsoft illustrates the benefit of the Git Virtual File System with the example of their Windows codebase which according to the company consists of “over 3.5 million files and is over 270 GB in size.” https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/visualstudioalm/2017/02/03/announcing-gvfs-git-virtual-file-system/