Git for Windows with Johannes Schindelin

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.