Skip to content
GitMinutes #28: Johannes Schindelin on Git for Windows episode artwork

Apr 14, 2014

GitMinutes #28: Johannes Schindelin on Git for Windows

from GitMinutes Hosted by Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen

In this episode we talk to Johannes Schindelin from the msysgit project, a tool used for building Git for Windows. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element. Use the link below to download the mp3 manually. Link to mp3 Johannes is a mathematician with a degree in genetics. In his day job, he supports biologists with image processing and analysis. He is involved in a number of Open Source projects and he co-maintains Git for Windows with Sebastian Schuberth, Pat Thoyts and Erik Faye-Lund. He is from Germany, but currently lives in the Mid-West of the US. Note: We briefly discussed libgit2 being licensed as BSD. This is not the case anymore: It has switched to GPLv2 with a linking exception, Links: Johannes on Google+, GitHub Johannes' first OSS project: LibVNCServer/LibVNCClient (Fancy redesigned) MsysGit homepage Git for Windows wiki Mailing list/forum The “garden shears” Explanation what the “garden shears” are all about The git-svn ref issue The newly redesigned msysgit homepage sources Interactive rebase with Eclipse EGit Interactive rebase with SourceTree (this was released right after we recorded) Installing Git for Windows from within Visual Studio (video) Listen to the episode on YouTube

Episode details come from the podcast's RSS feed.

Embed this episode

Ready to play

GitMinutes #28: Johannes Schindelin on Git for Windows

No transcript yet.

Requests help us decide what to transcribe next.

Frequently asked questions

When was this GitMinutes episode published?

This episode was published on April 14, 2014.

Can I download this GitMinutes episode?

Yes. Use the download control on the episode player to save the publisher-provided media file.