Description

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.