Re: Git for Windows for Unix?

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 28, 2018, 20:42 UTC
Message-ID: <20180928204233.GA193055@aiede.svl.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <87ftxtieeg.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 27 2018, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

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>> That said, that seems to me like a lot of work to avoid adding some
>> patches to "next" that belong in "next" anyway.  I understand why the
>> Git for Windows maintainer does not always have time to upstream
>> promptly, which is why I suggest working with him to find a way to
>> help with that.
>>
>> If there's something I'm missing and Git is actually an uncooperative
>> upstream like the cases you've mentioned, then I'd be happy to learn
>> about that so we can fix it, too.
>
> That's one and valid way to look at it, convergence would be ideal.
>
> Another way to look at it, which is closer to what I was thinking about,
> is to just view GFW as some alternate universe "next" branch (which by
> my count is ~2-3k commits ahead of master[1]).

You could view it that way, but I don't. Many Git for Windows patches have never even visited the Git mailing list.

Thanks, Jonathan