Git for Windows with Johannes Schindelin
from All Things Git Hosted by Edward Thomson and Martin Woodward
Edward and Martin talk to Johannes Schindelin about Git for Windows. They discuss the challenges of porting a collection of Unix tools to Windows, maintaining a fork, make some turn of the century jokes about vi vs emacs, and encourage you to stop saying "msysgit". Johannes Schindelin maintains Git for Windows. He used to be a number theorist, a geneticist and a scientific image processing expert. He now works at Microsoft, spending most of his time trying to improve Git for Windows’ user experience. Show Notes Git for Windows Gitter, a chat room for discussing Git for Windows. Systems for building Unix-like applications on Windows: Cygwin, the project for Windows that tries to emulate POSIX. mingw, the minimum GNU system for Windows, a simpler way to build Unix-like applications. Jessie Frazelle on automation: Hire the people who will automate themselves out of a job, then just keep giving them jobs. jessie frazelle (@jessfraz) Git Merge is the conference for Git developers and enthusiasts. Johannes is talking with Derrick Stolee about building Git for Windows; Derrick recently wrote an article about performance improvements in Git for Windows.
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Edward and Martin talk to Johannes Schindelin about Git for Windows. They discuss the challenges of porting a collection of Unix tools to Windows, maintaining a fork, make some turn of the century jokes about vi vs emacs, and encourage you to stop saying 'msysgit'.
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