Comment by WorldMaker

It's interesting to point out that almost all of Microsoft's "augmentations" to git have been open source and many of them have made it into git upstream already and come "ready to configure" in git today ("conical" sparse checkouts, a lot of steady improvements to sparse checkouts, git commit-graph, subtle and not-so-subtle packfile improvements, reflog improvements, more). A lot of it is opt-in stuff because of backwards compatibility or extra overhead that small/medium-sized repos won't need, but so much of it is there to be used by anyone, not just the big corporations.

I think it is neat that at least one company with mega-repos is trying to lift all boats, not just their own.