From: NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:17:28 GMT Subject: Re: [Outreachy] internship contribution Message-ID: In-Reply-To: thank you all for your suggestions, let me see what is easy for me On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 7:58 PM Luna Jernberg wrote: > > Maybe WSL can be used?: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 6:55 PM Derrick Stolee wrote: > > > > On 10/10/2022 12:22 PM, Christian Couder wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 10, 2022 at 2:19 PM NSENGIYUMVA WILBERFORCE > > > wrote: > > >> > > >> I see most of the articles are UNIX based, does it mean that I should > > >> have a UNIX based operating system in order to contribute? > > >> Currently, I have windows installed 11 on my PC > > > > > > You can install a Linux virtual machine on your PC and develop in this > > > virtual machine, or you can install the Git for Windows SDK from: > > > > > > https://gitforwindows.org/#contribute > > > > > > It might be best to install both development environments. I will not > > > be able to help you much with development environment issues if you > > > develop on Windows, but if it works for you, that could be Ok, > > > especially if you use GitGitGadget too. > > > > The git-for-windows/git fork has some information that is helpful > > for developing Git on a Windows machine [1]. This also includes > > details about recommending a Linux VM with Windows' Hyper-V system > > because compiling and testing Git is so much faster on Linux. > > > > [1] https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md > > > > Good luck! > > -Stolee