Podcasts Technology All Things Git Git for Windows with Johannes Schindelin

Git for Windows with Johannes Schindelin

Published: Feb. 20, 2018, 6:05 p.m.

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Edward and Martin talk to Johannes Schindelin about Git for\nWindows. They discuss the challenges of\nporting a collection of Unix tools to Windows, maintaining a fork,\nmake some turn of the century jokes about vi vs emacs, and encourage\nyou to stop saying "msysgit".

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Johannes Schindelin maintains Git for Windows.\nHe used to be a number theorist, a geneticist and a scientific image\nprocessing expert. He now works at\nMicrosoft, spending most of\nhis time trying to improve Git for Windows\u2019 user experience.

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  • Git for Windows\n
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    • Gitter, a chat room for\ndiscussing Git for Windows.
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  • Systems for building Unix-like applications on Windows:\n
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    • Cygwin, the project for Windows that tries to\nemulate POSIX.
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    • mingw, the minimum GNU system for Windows, a\nsimpler way to build Unix-like applications.
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  • Jessie Frazelle on automation:\n
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    Hire the people who will automate themselves out of a job, then just keep giving them jobs.
    \njessie frazelle (@jessfraz)

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  • Git Merge is the conference for Git developers and\nenthusiasts. Johannes is talking with Derrick Stolee about building Git for\nWindows; Derrick recently wrote an article about performance improvements\nin Git for Windows.
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