The blog post does mention that some changes have been made to git (in their for...

sdesol · on Feb 4, 2017

I did a quick comparison of Microsoft's fork and it appears they have done quite a bit with it.

Microsoft's fork contains 67,522 commits. The official Git repo contains 45,810. It appears the bulk of the work started in 2010, with significant ramp up of development in 2015.

https://gitsense.com/mgit-vs-git/history.png

Looks like Microsoft only really introduced about 100 more new files.

https://gitsense.com/mgit-vs-git/files.png

Microsoft's repo contains 1712 contributors. Git's repo contains 1685 contributors. So it looks 20 - 30 employees worked on Microsoft's fork.

https://gitsense.com/mgit-vs-git/mgit-contributors.png https://gitsense.com/mgit-vs-git/git-contributors.png