Git for Windows with Johannes Schindelin - a podcast by Edward Thomson and Martin Woodward

Edward and Martin talk to Johannes Schindelin aboutGit 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 maintainsGit for Windows.
He used to be a number theorist, a geneticist and a scientific imageprocessing expert. He now works atMicrosoft, 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 Frazelleon automation:

  Hire the people who will automate themselves out of a job, then just keep giving them jobs.
  jessie frazelle (@jessfraz)

• Git Mergeis the conference for Git developers and
  enthusiasts. Johannes is talking with Derrick Stolee about building Git forWindows; Derrick recently wrote anarticle about performance improvements
  in Git for Windows.

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