[jpsim]

It's a little funny that GVFS itself is hosted on GitHub which means you won't be able to pull it as a GVFS repo.

[Stratoscope]

That makes perfect sense; they want the code to be where the people are.

And the GVFS repo doesn't have the problems GVFS tries to solve. The current .git directory is only 425KB. You could put three copies on a floppy disk!